Iba bien hasta que presentó a su esposo. Está como mi presidente López Obrador: predicando a favor de los pobres (la mayoría prietos) y casándose con una criolla picada de alemán. El mismo caso de Saúl Reyna: adora a su raza mexicana pero para casarse prefirió a una blanca sajona. Para mi modo de ver, estos son los peores racistas porque dicen una cosa y hacen otra.
¿Qué podría ser más racista que criticar a las parejas mixtas? Gracias por ejemplificar el racismo del que hablo en el video. Muchos extranjeros ven los videos y tu comentario los ayudará a entender las actitudes problemáticas que existen entre algunos mexicanos.
Thank you for this. I'm an African American, and I have always had an interest in the indigenous history of Mexico and Central America. I was shocked when I found out that people today who have the beautiful features of their ancestors were discriminated against today in Latin America. Darker skinned Mexicans with indigenous blood have an incredible history to celebrate and be proud of.
Look up Afro Mexicans, they’re PROUD to be black. There’s not much recognition of black Mexicans. If you find the video of Afro Mexicans and the black Mexicans singer, it’s a start in Latin America where Latinos embrace and recognize their Afro roots.
My parents are from Mexico. My mother from Colima Colima and my father's from Parral Chihuahua. My mother and father met here in San Francisco California and raise five boys. I am the youngest and also the darkest in my family. Growing up here people thought I was black and I learn the n-word at the age of 5 years old. As I got older and went into college I decided to study my ancestry. When I went to Parral Chihuahua to visit my dad's family, I found that I was not the darkest one anymore. Seeing that my aunt's family lived off the land and studying the history of Parral. I realized that we were directly descendant from the Raramuri of the Copper Canyon and this is where we get our dark skin from. When I travel in Mexico and meet other tribes, they're very proud that I admit to being indigenous.
Good for you. We all should be proud of who we are and live our life in the happy Way. Cheers from California. A lot of people are ignorant because they lack education and true And honest understanding of our history.
Hey brother, i am from Parral. I was born in a neighbor town called San Francisco del Oro and moved to the bay area when i finished college. Good for you. Mexican Natives hold most of the good that we have as a culture. It’s the Spanish culture that crapped all over our Native roots.
I grew up in Texas and even though I’m a light skinned Mexican American when I was growing up I was told by other kids to go back to Mexico and got called a wet back. When I met people from Mexico they called me a gringo but to the real gringos I was as Mexican as poncho villa. Now that I’m older and live in the northeast, everyone thinks I’m white or European. The funny thing is my mother took a dna test recently and found out she’s over 60% Native American. You can’t always tell by color what someone’s ethnicity is.
@Brown Dragon I don’t think my biological father’s had the same kind of dna test done but I always assumed his side was more indigenous because my grandfather had a darker complexion and his facial features caused him to appear more Native American while my mother’s side is lighter.
@@75daddygonzo bro im in the same situation im not as brown as my mom but im not as white as trump too, im just in the middle, not to mention I have a very indigenous face but pale skin. But im always proud of looking indigenous, just makes me feel like a bad ass Emiliano Zapata🇲🇽
My situation is similar but different. My dad is mixed black and Mexican and my mom is mostly indigenous Mexican so I took a few dna tests and I’m typically around 30%- 44% Native and 35% African and 25-37% Spanish. But my features got so mixed up I came out mostly getting confused for Polynesian or Hawaiian and some type of Islander😂 to other Mexicans or indigenous I. Either that or just a black dude and to whites I’m either just black or Filipino or Polynesian and then to blacks I’m always something else I’ve heard Indonesian Malaysian Bangladesh 😂
why is so bad to look like indigenous people or I mean asian? We are smart, good strong hair, brown skin and the sun loves us.We do not get sunburn....maybe it`s self-hatred?
it might be self-hatred sometimes, but it didn't come out of nothing: it's been 500 years of european colonization and eurocentrism. people with european features have had/kept more privilege and power (as commented on the video). what happens to/in the minds of people who are constantly seeing, hearing that indigenous and african features are deemed ugly, worthless, undesirable? it might not be self-hatred at all: it's all those centuries behind us, upon us, around us (or, as it is believed in some cultures: in front of us, since the past is something we already know and can see). fortunately, more and more people have begun to question that and realize that it doesn't have to be like that anymore. it's happening in all of the americas and around the globe, where colonization set(s) its foot. communications and networks in these internet times are helping a lot to de-colonize our minds, bodies and cultures. technology is serving a purpose. yt channels like this are a very good example of all that : )
The problem is not “Looking Asian”, there are fair skinned Mexicans that look Asian and no one has a problem with it. The thing that people have a problem with is having “dark skin” in general, it doesn’t matter if you “look Asian” or not, dark skin is seen as ugly, dirty, disgusting, and undesirable.
This happens all over the world due to what white supremacy has done to all cultures, from inside the diaspora. Let us not forget that the dark skin signifies being Aboriginal everywhere on the planet. We have covered the globe biblically and historically. Be proud of your dark skin. We have Melanin and we have been around for a long, long time. That protects you as this world comes to a close with environmental issues, like UV rays. Being fair skinned won’t be a good thing when that happens.
My grandma (from Mexico) discriminates her own kids and grandkids that are darker skin. It’s insane and sad. Our own people are the most racist with their own.
You mean the white descendants from Europe yes they are racists and not only the white Mexicans but the rest of the white hispanics in all of Latin America as well
Since Spain was colonized for 750 years from dark brown Moores and dark yellowish Arabs before colonizing Mexico. Meaning by the time they were about to colonize Mexico most Spaniards were born from dark brown Arab women and black women and some even had Arab/Afro dark brown father's. But because of the extensive admixture some Spaniards were born of light complexion almost white with very curly hair. Thus, they hated the idea that indigenous would look the same for Europeans would bully Spaniards for their dark complexion. Thus, their insecurities were transfered to the mestizo people (people of spanish and indigenous mix), which is today Latin America.
I have and aunt that discriminates own her own kids for been born brown skin. Thats why she married my uncle so she could have white kids. But it didn’t turn out that way. And she discriminates on them for that
You are such a wonderful person for bringing up this topic! I believe it originated from the Spaniards way of dominating the indigenous people. The lighter skin you are, the more benefits. Systemic racism which is still very alive today. My father is from Chile and my mother is from Honduras. I was born in Philadelphia. In my family there are light skin relatives because our great, great grandfather was English. I remember growing up that my light skin cousins would get preferential treatment in my own family. Yet, out of all my relatives, I'm the only one with a bachelor and masters degree, currently working on a doctorate degree. I'm glad to hear that you don't consider yourself any less than light skinned people. Marrying an Englishman is not making your race any better. I'm married to a Japanese because I'm attracted to my wife and what makes her unique. It's sad when light skinned people cannot accept other races. Love is color blind but hate isn't.
Love isn’t color blind. It sees all that you are and doesn’t have a problem with it. If we don’t have to be blind to hair color, eye color, weight or height, we don’t need to be blind to skin color...unless you have a problem with it. It’s OK to see skin color
" Marrying an Englishman is not making your race any better." Or worse! I often hear people make the inverse argument; both are not true (though of course it was true in the historical past, as you exemplified in your example of the Spaniards). As you say, love is color blind, it shouldn't matter who you are with, it should not matter what culture, ethnicity, or race they are.
It's opposite in USA, my kids are mad at me bc they're 1/4 white, they wish they were full native, told them to blame gma not me for marrying a white man.
The lady in this video is light brown she's not dark. I have a medium brown complexion my skin is just like a copper penny. She's not as Dark as I am. Be proud of your dark skin it protects u from skin cancer
Exactly lol. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light but I find brown/dark skinned Latinas more attractive, exotic, and sexy in my opinion. I’m saying that the other colors are ugly, they’re not. It’s just that they aren’t really my type
You just literally described exactly how I feel as a Brazilian! We have the exact same issue... I feel like in Brazil people have been talking a lot about it recently and we are starting to see more representation little by little in the media.
Francis I am very surprised to hear about this in Brazil. Everyone is so mixed there so why would dark skin be a problem? What can the beauty standard be in Brazil if everyone is so mixed?
Yes as a gringa in Mexico I was rather shocked when I heard my European looking Mexican neighbors talking about some relative that married a dark skinned man in a belittling way, having come from California I thought I was leaving that sort of bigotry behind. But frankly this has always been the European colonialist way to keep 'the natives' subservient to their exploitation by making them feel 'less'... shameful really. Fortunately I was never raised that way by my doctor father, who always said that if you cut someone open, we are all the same inside. Simplistic and perhaps crude, but still an important lesson for me growing up and for everyone with delusions of grandeur simply because of a superficial skin color.
Sorry, it's not just "the European colonialist way to keep 'the natives' subservient" - it goes back centuries in countries all over the world before they even encountered Europeans, more to do with various caste or class systems than race, particularly in hot countries. people who would farm outside all day would have more tanned skin, whilst the upper caste or royalty etc would be inside more and have paler skin. We also aren't all the same inside either, different bloodtypes, genetics, DNA, different subseptibility to different illnesses. People with paler skin are more prone to skin cancer over many years in hot countries, people with darker skin are more prone to colds and flu's in colder climates due to not being able to absorb enough Vitamin D from the weaker amount of sunlight .
@@billbird6494 Yea, but all that(different bloodtypes, genetics, DNA, different susceptibility to different illnesses) happened because of conditioning, IA Gringa is correct in what she said. You can change your genetics through generational conditioning, through diet and life style changes, and being consistent with it. Plus, I know you're going to say you can't change or control blood types and DNA, but you can, not your own blood or DNA, the change would come in the 20th generation and onward that come after you.
Shut up you live in Mexico to feel special and for attention because you know Mexicans treat white people better than Mexicans! Your daddy issues are showing
That's crazy bc us mixed breeds in USA wish we were more indigenous, at least me, I know my mom is full blood and my dad claims a indigenous great gma but I'm white looking but my brother is darker.
Colorism happens everywhere unfortunately. It happens in the middle east too, where some Arabs look European with blonde hair and blue eyes, or even in India. Even though you may not see many blondes in India, colorism is strong and alive there too.
My grandfather had to break off relations with his parents because he married a morena. This was back in the 1920's, the family was wealthy and they didn't like her at all. One day he came home and asked where his wife was --she wanted to prepare his dinner so they sent her out to the servant's kitchen. He threw a fit, insisting that she was his wife and they must treat her so, when they refused... he got his wife and left. He died before I was born so I never met him but he had light skin and green eyes. Their children (my mom the youngest and all the aunts and uncles) were every shade inbetween. My mom said you never wanted to make him mad, because his green eyes looked terrifying when he was mad, lol. Anywho, you're darned right there's colorism. It's part of my family history! It seems to pop up in every country where imperialism left it's mark. GL, and TY for your time reading this.
I passed as native in Mexico. But I was actually born in the US to parents from Southeast Asia. Regardless, while I was visiting Mexico, while traveling with my white buddies, it became clear that Mexicanas preferred them over me. So I voted with my feet and soon left Latin America. I would advise folks with the same look to do the same or avoid Latin America, except for short tourism.
Man this happened to me in the usa (I live in the USA btw ) my cousin is lowkey lighter then me and we met distant cousins and I could immediately tell they preferred him over me due to the difference in our skin color I just walked away and didn’t bother to shake their hands , why waste my time on family who will also look down upon me because of my skin , this is so common to I had a friend who was as dark as me but he has family member who were like white skinned they made fun of him because of his skin color once I heard this I knew there was a racist culture in Mexico towards darker skinned Mexicans , man I’m proud of my skin now and I don’t ever let people make fun of my origins and where my parents are from
This is called ignorance and because whiteness is pushed by the white hispanic latins in Mexico since the time of hispanic colonialism. In the USA this is pushed as well. This is also part of the strategy to divide and prevent Pan Nativism. In truth, all Indigenous people are part of the Asian family.
Cuando te digo que yo no puedo con este tema... Hace años estaba viendo un programa en un canal mexicano... Uno de los que ponen en las mañanas. Y salió una jovencita saludando a su tío o a su primo que trabajaba en los EE.UU. diciendo, "Y tráeme un novio con ojos azules para mejorar la raza." ¡Cómo me encabroné! Y ni siquiera soy mexicana, sino negra norteamericana. Puede que sea un dicho común y según algunos inofensivo pero a mí, me dio coraje. Digo, qué tiene de malo su raza para necesitar mejoría??? Y es más, cómo se puede llamar un canal profesional y respetuoso, y permite que una persona se ponga ahí delante del mundo entero para difundir esa ignorancia???" Sencillamente no puedo. Pero gracias por tratar este tema importante.
Es una expresión "divertida" en México para referirse que quieres una pareja más "atractiva" que Tú. No solamente la usan con nacionalidades , sino con rasgos físicos , altura, y en menor grado inteligencia. Pero pues no está bien decirla, es estúpido
Yo recuerdo que mi mamá siempre me dicia que ella "mejoró la raza" conmigo porque uno de los hombres con los que salia era negro (y por negro me refiero a que en efecto, tenía sangre negra) pero ella tuvo una aventura con el que fue mi padre, trigueño y de cabello oscuro, así que no solo lo usan con la gente blanca y sí, es horrible como el racismo/colorismo es normalizado, yo también recuerdo mucho cuando alguien nombraba algo de color de piel, mi hermana y todos bien dizque orgullosos "Es que nuestro bisabuelo era español, oh oh" como si fuese algo que te hiciera mejor, a pesar de que ninguno de nosotros eramos blancos, pero trigueños... En su momento como niña nunca le presté atención a estas cosas y si creía que era algo que me hacía mejor pero ahora puedo razonar y decir lo horrible que es lo que dicen en nuestros países
Este tipo de lenguaje percibido como aceptable, lo es cuando NO se es consciente del racismo internalizado y normalizado en la cultura y por la poca responsabilidad de los medios masivos de checar su discurso colonialista.
Yo soy de Ecuador y me horroriso que un jugador ecuatoriano fue insultado por un pasa bolas en un partido en Mexico usando su color de piel, ya que los deportistas de mi pais son de raza negra, incluso yo tengo al menos un 30% de herencia negra. Yo demostre mi inconformidad en los comentarios del video y tristemente muchos mexicanos se pusieron del lado del pasabolas y minimizando el problema. Es cierto que este jugador se indigno y actuo agresivamente pero nunca se tomo medidas en contra del que empezo todo. Si hubiera sucedido eso o lo que tu nos contaste en Estados Unidos, Europa o incluso mi pais que esta en Sudamerica si hubieran habido serias consecuencias. Yo voy a visitar Mexico en un par de meses y creo que es un pais hermoso, pero en temas raciales se queda muy atras igual que en algunas partes de Asia y tambien lo digo por otras experiencias que he tenido con ellos en alguna otra ocacion. Por supuesto todos debemos mejorar y es importante sacar todo esto para que alguien lo lea y su corazon se ablande y entienda que esta mal este tipo de cosas. Gracias por compartirlo.
@@DavidMartinez-im6ln es un país racista y clasista pero tu se auténtico y dónde quieras vas a caer bien. Yo soy de México y si hay muchas actitudes que no deberían ser.
I'm white and my husband is a medium dark Mexican. Our children are "leche con café ". The variety of colors in people makes our world BEAUTIFUL. My darker children have experienced prejudice here in the U.S. I have never heard my husband speak of prejudice about himself. He's from the state of Coahuila born in 1948.
Yeah every color is beautiful and prejudice sucks. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I love dark skinned latinas because they’re beautiful 😍. In fact, every color is :)
Yeah every color is beautiful and prejudice sucks. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I love dark skinned latinas because they’re beautiful 😍. In fact, every color is :)
Yeah every color is beautiful and prejudice sucks. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I love dark skinned latinas because they’re beautiful 😍. In fact, every color is :)
Yeah every color is beautiful and prejudice sucks. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I love dark skinned latinas because they’re beautiful 😍. In fact, every color is :)
Yeah every color is beautiful and prejudice sucks. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I love dark skinned latinas because they’re beautiful 😍. In fact, every color is :)
While discussing Native American origins on the other video, lots of trolls were throwing back handed pseudo scientific comments implying Natives are "somehow primitive" it's unreal, that's why speaking of race is very controversial, you'll always have people still trying to defend obsolete ideals. It's a shame we were taught to ignore our Native heritage and there's people keen on keeping it that way.
I'm a very fair skinned Mexican woman. My 1st husband was Dutch/Norweigan with blonde hair and blue eyes. My skin tone was still whiter than him! When I was 21 yrs old, my sister and I went to Puerto Vallarta. We were standing in line to get into a nightclub, and even though we were 1st in line, the door guys were hand picking the blonds or brown haired people from the line. They spoke fluent English and we told them we were from CA, but that seem to matter. We had the wrong color hair according to them. This wasn't the only time, we experienced discrimination in Mexico. :(
Great video, it brings awareness to this topic. I’m Mexican with dark skin too. We are just a different flavor to the many beautiful flavors in our human race. The idea that darker skin makes you less than lighter skin is nonsense. Let’s all enjoy each other and embrace our differences.
Amazing comment, I wish more people were like this. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I prefer dating dark skinned Latinas because I find them more exotic and sexy. I hope I don’t sound weird but they’re just my type. I don’t hate other races and I’m not saying the other colors are ugly, it’s just that they’re my type, as I said before. I just wish that this dumb racist stuff ends, it’s pretty annoying.
Amazing comment, I wish more people were like this. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I prefer dating dark skinned Latinas because I find them more exotic and sexy. I hope I don’t sound weird but they’re just my type. I don’t hate other races and I’m not saying the other colors are ugly, it’s just that they’re my type, as I said before. I just wish that this dumb racist stuff ends, it’s pretty annoying.
Amazing comment, I wish more people were like this. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I prefer dating dark skinned Latinas because I find them more exotic and sexy. I hope I don’t sound weird but they’re just my type. I don’t hate other races and I’m not saying the other colors are ugly, it’s just that they’re my type, as I said before. I just wish that this dumb racist stuff ends, it’s pretty annoying.
I'm a USA half-breed and I prefer dark skinned indigenous, I prefer the ones who are into their culture bc I love learning about other indigenous cultures.
I agree that she is not dark. But as a Mexican this is what society thinks. It permeates everything. Did you watch Roma the Neftlix movie? Many famous mexican actors came out against the main actress for being “dark”. Completely unprovoked. And it shows how society sees this. It is a real thing in Mexico. I will say though it is not as toxic as in other counties. This is not politicized or discussed too much in the media. Though some may say that is a problem too. I also think religion has a lot to do with this. But invoking religion may bring the wrath of the trolls over me.
As a brown skinned Mexican myself, I often see an internalized self-hatred that I can only assume was reinforced by thing like novelas throughout their lives. Idk, maybe I'm seeing it wrong. Would like to know what others think 😊
Yes you’re right. Racism is taught and for us Latinos it dates back to the colonial days when the Spanish introduced it. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I hate racism, it’s so annoying and I wish it would disappear. Also, I prefer dating dark skinned latinas because I’ve always found them more attractive, exotic, and sexy. As I said before, I’m not racist and I’m not saying that the other colors are ugly, it’s just that dark skinned latinas are my type.
Yes you’re right. Racism is taught and for us Latinos it dates back to the colonial days when the Spanish introduced it. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I hate racism, it’s so annoying and I wish it would disappear. Also, I prefer dating dark skinned latinas because I’ve always found them more attractive, exotic, and sexy. As I said before, I’m not racist and I’m not saying that the other colors are ugly, it’s just that dark skinned latinas are my type.
Yes you’re right. Racism is taught and for us Latinos it dates back to the colonial days when the Spanish introduced it. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I hate racism, it’s so annoying and I wish it would disappear. Also, I prefer dating dark skinned latinas because I’ve always found them more attractive, exotic, and sexy. As I said before, I’m not racist and I’m not saying that the other colors are ugly, it’s just that dark skinned latinas are my type.
Yes you’re right. Racism is taught and for us Latinos it dates back to the colonial days when the Spanish introduced it. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I hate racism, it’s so annoying and I wish it would disappear. Also, I prefer dating dark skinned latinas because I’ve always found them more attractive, exotic, and sexy. As I said before, I’m not racist and I’m not saying that the other colors are ugly, it’s just that dark skinned latinas are my type.
Yes you’re right. Racism is taught and for us Latinos it dates back to the colonial days when the Spanish introduced it. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I hate racism, it’s so annoying and I wish it would disappear. Also, I prefer dating dark skinned latinas because I’ve always found them more attractive, exotic, and sexy. As I said before, I’m not racist and I’m not saying that the other colors are ugly, it’s just that dark skinned latinas are my type.
It’s strange but I don’t think of you as dark skinned. I am Mexican American born in Texas. I am the darkest skinned in my family though as I get older I think I’m not as much as when I was a kid. I do remember my father telling be not to be out in the sun. I believe as an adult that he knew there was prejudiced against being darker skinned and must have experienced it.
Yeah she’s not even that dark and yeah this racism stuff sucks. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light but I prefer dating dark or tanned Latinas because I just find them more exotic, sexy, and beautiful. Im not saying that the other colors/races are ugly, they’re not. It’s just that dark skinned Latinas are my type
You mentioned your school experience of noticing that white-looking classmates were more popular and treated better than others. That reminded me of a song that was popular in the US in the mid-1970s by an Afro-descendant singer named Janis Ian, a song called "Seventeen." She sings about thinking she was ugly as a teenager because she didn't have "perfect" skin and blond hair. You might like it.
Hola! Me encanta tus videos, yo vi el video de "Why do some Mexican look asian" y mi subscribi. Gracias por hacer un video como este. Yo soy de los EEUU pero mis padres son de Mexico. Aqui en RUclips hay muchos videos que hablan del tema "colorism" y creo que es importante de descutir porque hay muchos que no quieren admitir que existe en la comunidad, o hasta en familia.
Bueno a mí me molestaban por tener la piel casi lechosa y medio verdosa en ocasiones y tener ojos rasgados, pero pues.esa parte se la debo a mi familia materna que es una mezcla de japoneses y Españoles pero al final es un orgullo ser mexicano
La Karencita Yo soy Tzeltal de origen maya. Mi cara es igual que una cabeza maya de palenque. Nunca me he sentido descriminado ni en Mexico ni aqui en USA. Para mi es solamente un estado mental. Mi educacion y sabiduria esta muy arriba de cualquier color. Por lo tanto. Pudiera aplastar muy facilmente a cualquier racista que se me apareciera. Pero nunca he tenido surte. Sera que los racistas solo encuentran a los racistas que se sienten descriminados? Es decir indios ,negros chinos etc. que se sienten descriminados. Tambien son racistas. ya que piensan mucho en su raza y se preocupan por lo que dicen otros racistas. Pero como yo no pienso en esas tonterias. Tal vez ni lo noto!
In America it’s the opposite. It’s ok to discriminate against whites. The only time I felt white privileged was when I traveled through out Asia. Also parts of Latin America and the Caribbean
@@t.8837 white people didnt "create" slavery. There were slaves in Africa, middle east and asia well before the Americas even existed.. Theres white people in south Africa and they get discriminated all the time Just shows how much you know about History or the world..
Blackwell xoxo you really don’t know history. Slavery and conquest was in this hemisphere long before Columbus. Slaves built the Great Wall and pyramids and was practiced in Africa before North America.
Skin color do occur do to many reasons, especially geographic location, climate, humidity etc. but it take several centuries to make difference. As we know human race is migrated from Africal, so theoritically our ancestors were black. As we already knows that white Americans are slightly different from Europeans. Southern Europeans especially Spaniards, Italians, Greeks and balkans are darker compared ro north Europeans.
She is defending la raza de bronce and she is married to a white guy. Why she didn't marry another vato just like her??? Put the money where your mouth is!! 🤑... And you're right this video sucks!!!!!
I think it’s deep in our primitive brain as part of our tribal nature. We like to subdivide into groups (maybe a survival mechanism to try to belong to a larger group and get protection that way). And since today most of the power lies in northern countries with predominant whites on top everyone else looks up. I guarantee you when Egyptians were top dog a few thousand years ago this was not an issue though I am sure other issues were there as part of this tribalism. In Rwanda people hated each other based on political groupings. I am not really sure there is a clear way to change this though education and exposure certainly helps.
Colorism =racism!! Unfortunately in Latin America it's a sad and disgraceful situation!! Hoping new generations embraced and be proud of all skin color!! Check out the telenovelas, they rather pick an European appearance so sad!!! I'm glad you speaking about this issue!!
I think the brown Mexicans are gorgeous actually! They look almost exotic. I live in Texas, which is North Mexico lol. So I have seen the diversity of the Mexican people. Tu eres bonita! Soy Cubana y amo Mexico 😁
@@uriahthehittite2309 I know what it is. I live here so I know. It was a joke. If you understood anything about the state, you would get the joke. It was part of Mexico and quite frankly still has a strong Mexican presence, outside of the eastern portion bordering Louisiana. Thanks for responding.
@James Garcia The sovereign states of Mexico does not name the places you mentioned to be Mexico. Only revisionist fools like yourself claim this nonsense. To me you are a foreign invader using the past that is dead to the present. If you are an American citizen ranting historical revisionism like what you did makes you a traitor.
Unfortunately racism and classism exits in the whole world. What's important is that people are talking about it more now a days. In the end it comes down to accepting who we are and not thinking we are superior to others 🤍
Es verdad que nuestra proponéis gente discrimina contra la gente que no tiene color de piel clara. Todos los colores son hermosos y es verdad Televisa tiene mucha culpa de engañar a la gente al pensar que la gente blanca es hermosa y la gente de color de piel no tanto. Que ignorancia y tristeza pero mira es nuestro trabajo de cambiar eso 😃
First of all I would like to say that I love your channel. I grew up learning to respect and appreciate every ones differences, and that is exactly what I have taught my daughters, and I am currently teaching my grandchildren. In my case, I was born in the Central Coast of California to Mexican parents. Back in the 80s there were hardly any Mexicans in this area only White - Italians. In school I was constantly confused for Italian or Portuguese due to my last names ( Davila Silva) and my light skin and reddish hair. As soon as I corrected my teachers and peers regarding my ethnicity, they would immediately treat me differently and would make rude comments because of my Mexican decent. Then, back in the early 90s a wave of immigrants arrived to the area, the majority were from Oaxaca, Mexico. I was so happy to see people who I assumed understood my culture. Unfortunately I was wrong, they treated me really rude because I was “too white” to be their friend and the whites would treat me bad for being “too Mexican” it’s was very hard for me growing up. I grew up having no friends. Now days things have changed, I still live in the same town but the diversity has grown tremendously! I love it! There are people from all over the world living in this small county. We have people from Mexico, Russia, Philippines, Germany, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Hungry, Fiji Islands, Bulgaria, Italy, Vietnam, India, Armenia. I’m so happy my daughters experienced living in a diverse community. Where an interracial marriage is not frowned up on. In fact, my grandsons are beautiful Black-Mexicans. ♥️🌹
Thanks for sharing. I love your culture and I love color and indigenous features. The world has this problem but be yourself , be confident and beautiful always, let the haters hate .
I am glad you touched on this. These same issues take place in the black culture in the U.S. I can't wait to come to México but have been apprehensive being a black woman.
It's interesting to see what dark-skinned and light skinned is considered by Spanish speaking people in certain parts of the world, especially knowing that there are even darker people that you find in Mexico, Central and South America because of the slave trade. In my experience I have had encounters with people from these regions who only identify themselves by their country of origin yet face many of the discriminatory things that you said in your video and say that there is no racism or divide among skin color. As someone whose mother is from Puerto Rico I have seen colorism and racism within my own family.
This is such an important video on a topic that no one wants to talk about or doesn’t even know exists. I never felt ashamed of myself or realized this was a problem until I visited my family in Mexico for the first time when I was 11. I would hear my aunts compare skin tones between my brother and I and their own kids along with hair and eye color. I would hear things like “my daughter is prettier because her hair is lighter.” It was always a competition no matter where I visited family.
Everyone is beautiful as they are. The fact is, what we look like is a present from God to our parents and ancestors. So any compliments we get on our appearance is really a compliment to our parents and ancestors. And no one is ugly. We just have people with ugly minds.
I used to watch Mexican telenovelas and yeah, you're right not many dark-skinned actors. If any, they usually are portrayed as the maid or the farm worker.
Thank you for making this video. It's so insightful. It is sad to know that dark skin has a negative image. Sister, your melanin is beautiful, you are certainly beautiful! We are all created equally, we should all treat one another as so!!
We have this same problem in the Philippines, which is crazy because although we are diverse we arent nearly as diverse (skin tone wise) as mexicans! Some of the girls will even go to the lengths to use a soap that is for lightening the skin
Yeah, but at the same time you have some Mediterranean or Middle Eastern facial features in which are stereotypically more attractive and superior to those of Native Americans/indigenous.
The British ruled over 200 years and barely interacted with the locals. The Muslims ruled for 800 years in India. The Aryans ruled for 5000 years and their culture is still present in India
Yo no solo tengo el nopal en la cara, lo llevo en el corazón. ❤️🌵❤️Y me encanta encontrar paisanos inteligentes, nobles y educados como tú. Son los verdaderos mexicanos con valores. 🤗
"Y me encanta encontrar paisanos inteligentes, nobles educados como tú" creo que eso es lo que quiso decir, no habla de la apariencia, eso es lo que entendí.
I was born in California to Mexican immigrants from Oaxaca. Growing up, I was discriminated ONLY by other Mexicans and not once by any other race, even white people. People from Jalisco, Zacatecas, Michoacan, etc...always talking shit because of where my family was from or my brown skin. I served the Marine Corps and went to school or stationed in the South, and not once did I ever experience overt racism towards me. But. yeah, other Mexicans, "my people", yeah....
I actually grew up in Los Angeles as a Latinx dark skin and felt like I was discriminated even amongst Mexican ppl for being the darkest out of my family. I grew up staying out of the sun because how easily I tanned and over time I realized how beautiful I am and I need to appreciate myself and the way i look💖 I’m so glad I’m in the position I am today, I appreciate my skin so much
I’m so happy you finally realised the beauty within you. Being discriminated as a dark skin child is so cruel. The fact that is dark skins can stay out in the sun longer and our skin glistens in the sun should be enough to showcase how beautiful we are. Proud of you my dear brother 🤎💪🏾
My dad was dark skinned and I always thought dark skin was so attractive! I used to get as tanned as possible because dark skin is so beautiful! My husband is the only person in his family who was dark and I thought him so handsome I couldn't help but marry him!
As somebody who grew up around Caribbean, Black american and Hispanic culture, I have observed this self-loathing, colonial racist trend in so many nuances. I now see the same thing in Europe with more immigrants than in the past. I appreciate people like you putting videos like this out there to help reverse the brainwashing that has permeated so many cultures throughout centuries. I am married to a Caucasian woman, where in some rare cases, I may get a similar reaction as you with your husband. Hopefully, soon, there will be more people who realize that love is love (minus people who only marry for physical appearance, like skin color). I hope that you have or will post a video on Afro ancestry (amongst other ancestries) in Mexico.
The shame of that whole thing is if you pluck someone's eyes out of their head it wouldn't matter what color you were as long as you were capable of leading in a direction that would help them. I think Mexicans wear white Mexicans have a serious issue and I've been on this Earth a long time and I've never met any Hispanic as racist as Mexicans. The problem is Mexicans are still trying to become what Jose vascancelos thought was the perfect Mexican milky white skin with different color eyes. Jose vasconcellos adopted Adolf Hitler's policy that if your hair is the same color as your eyes then you are not white. La Raza cosmica is nothing but a racist movement that Mexicans still follow till this day and it is such a shame because there's so many beautiful black Mexicans who are ostracized in Mexico at this particular time simply because of the color of their skin Mexico should be ashamed of itself to allow this to continue
As a light skinned Mexican I know that other light skinned Mexicans did talk negatively about darker skinned Mexicans when I was at school or jokes (racial in nature) hurled at them. It always made me mad.
The dark skinned mexicans are the real mexicans, the so called white Mexicans are the real imposters.alot of white blood in their fake asses, brown skin is beautiful and healthy, that's why white people tan. They even hate their own skin.they are jealous,you are beautiful.
En mi familia una de mis primas es muy blanca de ojos verdes y su papá le decía a mi mamá que no me vistiera de negro porque me hacia más oscura. Siempre me sentí mal por ser así y deseaba ser mas blanca pero ahora no me importa, estos rasgos que tengo son bonitos para el resto del mundo y para mí cada vez que me veo al espejo :)
Que pena que hay alguna gente así, odio al racismo. Soy Latino (Peruano y Guatemalteco) y soy blanco de piel pálido y siempre tuve una inclinación a las Latinas de piel canela. Se les ve mas exótica, sexy, y lindas. No estoy diciendo que las otras razas/colores son feos, sino es que las Latinas Morenas son mi preferencia
Same in Philippines. My cousins praised me for being Light Skinned. I told them, "Why? You are beautiful." And dark skin is beautiful. Not "too" or "also" but just beautiful.
Yeah that's the thing I hate so much about Filipinos. Our older relatives also makes us pinch our nose so it would become "matangos" (narrow nose) and the Miss Philippines beauty winner is often half-foreign with a white father from a western country and there seems to be a desire among young Pinays to marry an older white man 2x or even 3x their age.
You answered dozens of questions I've had about Mexican treatment of fairer skinned people, said as a Taiwanese American whose ancestors have those same sentiments. Superb answering, I feel SO relieved I'm not the only one wondering.
Desgraciadamente el racismo en México es real, mi madre es wera y mi padre moreno, mis dos hermanos son weros y yo Morena, siempre recibí todo el cariño de mis padres, pero también sentí la discriminación de algunos miembros de la familia y cuando eres niñ@ y te ofenden te lastiman ufffff Pero afortunadamente creces y comprendes que vales igual que cualquier ser humano de cualquier color Dios me ha bendecido en abundancia, el no discrimina, el es amor
It's a shame that indigenous ppl are constantly being treated like they're not good enough, pretty enough. When this is literally your homeland and there's all this history and archeological sites right there for you to explore. I love Roma. Alfonso Cuaron is one of my favorite directors. I could only imagine the significance of seeing an indigenous person on the big screen, and speaking an indigenous dialect too. I'd love to hear more about your journey exploring your roots. Pls keep us informed.
Mexico was a colony of Spain; as such depending of one's features and appearance as well as how mixed your bloodline is, so if your wondering why people with European features are desirable that's one reason. I was born and raised in Costa Rica another colony. my parents were not allowed into town on weekends, something I've heard went on in other post-colonial lands. oh yeah and if you try and call me or anyone else "moreno' which we do consider a racial slur; regardless of what you've heard, you will get a whipping
That's very interesting, in Mexico moreno means brown and a word most Mexican American could relate to also Mexicos modern presidential left wing party is called Morena.
Same thing in Vietnam. When H'Hen Niê won miss Vietnam back in 2017, all of Vietnamese youths were proud, because we finally have a dark skin ethnic minority that held the title. She was the first dark skin girl and of a small indigenous tribe in the Vietnamese highland with parents that don't even speak the Vietnamese language. But even till this day, light skin Kinh people still dominate the media and the defined beauty image of the country. Like Vietnamese Novela is literally filled with extremely pale skin (Kinh ethnic) Vietnamese actors. The other 53 dark skinned minority groups still have a long way until they can receive recognition in the media (not to mention language & culture barrier since some tribes don't speak Vietnamese). Even foreigners can easily apply for Vietnamese citizenship and being treated better than the ethnic natives. I think we can do better than this! Dark skinned ethnic groups are Vietnamese too and they deserved better recognition and chances and representation. Btw I love your videos and I spend many years as a child in Oaxaca, México 😍
Once when I was working in US, my Centroamerican boss ask me where I was from, I told him "I'm Mexican", I asked him "where are you from?" he just said: "I'm from El Salvador", but my grandgrandfather was from Portugal, what about your family?. - I just said I'M 100% MEXICAN. He said: So you are indigenous? (He said it in insulting way, imagining that I would feel offended), I said: well, yes but I don't speak an indigenous language but I would love to learn it. I've been called Asian and of course I know there are a mix in my family, but I still can't understand this mentality of Latinos trying to overpass others Latinos just because they have foreign heritage. Please, when somebody ask you where are you from, only answer your nationality, its not necessary to know your grand,grand,grand,grand,grandparents nationality if you just do it for the feeling of superiority.
Well, yeah! You straight up do look Asian, though. Many Native Americans look similar to Asians especially Filipinos because tens of thousands of years ago, Native Americans came from the Mongoloids (the Asian race) before crossing over the ancient ice age land bridge in between Siberia and Alaska. Others boated across and settled since then. The way I see it is that Native Americans compared to many East Asians for example generally have higher cheekbones, a little less slanted or closing-in eyes but the eyes are still small and slanted or closing-in, possibly rounder heads, wrinkles on their faces or skins easily, shorter in height and lesser metabolism making them easily obese. Though, Native Americans in the U.S and Canada are generally tall and less likely obese compared to Latin America's Native Americans. East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Taiwanese) on the other hand are generally light skin, have more slanted or closing-in eyes, lower cheekbones, heads that are not as round as the Native Americans, flatter faces, medium height but still shorter than most Caucasians and Afros on average, higher metabolism so therefore they're not as likely to be as obese as Latin America's Native Americans, and a little bit more hair growth. Southeast Asians are much like East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Taiwanese) but their skin tones are generally darker, faces not as flat, and probably a bit shorter.
In Latin America, I believe that Caucasians and those that are mostly Caucasians like the castizos are generally up top, mestizos or anyone with only half or less Caucasian are like in second place, Asians likely in second place, and Native Americans/indigenous and Afros are down at the bottom.
I (American) have close indigenous friends in Guatemala, but I find them much more standoffish in Mexico. Then again, Guatemalans in general seem to like Americans more than Mexicans do. Except the Mexicans in the US, of course.
Same case in the Philippines being white or half white became the standard in the media but that was something that we shouldn't be proud of but I'm happy that morenos have being represented we'll right now.Its time to embrace moreno skin.
In the Philippines, we used to think that Mexicans are mostly European looking because of the telenovelas. I found out, that we as former colonies of the same Europeans, are still both slaves of colonial mentality. Here, indigenous looks gets lowkey disliked and many prefer white skin. Tons of videos with this topic has been produced on RUclips. To add, the Spaniards called us Indio and that was derogatory.
I just finished your Asian video, and my wife who is Filipina has told me dark skin ( morena) is not desirable. As it means your a poor rice farmer, and not fair skin. There are products like lotions, creams to lighten the skin tone. I was call bolillo before and yes I know it’s meaning. But I don’t get offended by it. Is the word prieta still used in Mexico? Cuidate
This is a great video. The only one I could find that addresses skin tone and eyecolor prejudice in Mexico. On the surface Americans are not aware of this subtle prejudice. As I get to know the culture I am more aware of it. How interesting. Thank You.
En la primaria una vez escuché a unas niñas hablar de como les gustaria tener una amiga güera porque nunca habian tenido una y yo solo recuerdo pensar "what, que tiene eso de especial?" pero no habia caido en cuenta que podrian estar diciendolo como si fuera algo bueno solo por su piel mas clara. Cuando empece a andar con mi ex, recibi el comentario de una prima acerca de como iba a mejorar la raza y su tono no era muy distinto al mio, a lo mejor yo soy solo un poco mas amarilla. A veces veo que comparten esos casos en redes donde una europea o una mujer de E.U.A. esta en una relación o casada con un hombre moreno de rascos indigenas y muchos hombres cuyos rasgos indigenas son muy fuertes tambien lo hacen menos o lo tomas como un logro al cual aspirar... conoci a una chica ciega durante un servicio social y ella me decia de como sus tias y su familia le habian hecho darse cuenta lo fea que era a comparación de su hermana que tenia la piel mas clara y yo la veia hermosa, le hice notar mi sorpresa y le habian dicho tanto que no lo era que no me creia.. y luego estan casos como el de Yalitza que son muy frustrantes, disfrazan su racismo con excusas como que hubiera sido actriz antes cuando eso ni se lo cuestionan en las telenovelas con actores de piel clara, es muy decepcionante ver como no nos hemos librado de esas ideas de la colonia despues de tanto tiempo, escucho mucho a algunos decir que México no es racista si no clasista pero es ambos lamentablemente, mas que nada hacia la piel morena y rasgos indigenas
En estos casos me gustaría ver a las feministas a hacer algo. Ayudar a la humanidad a entender que el color de piel es solo eso, color de piel, pero que todos somos iguales.
@@AnaRuizNeko el feminismo no es el problema sino más bien los radicales que hay en los movimientos que terminan por manchara todo el movimiento pero en sí no esmalo es como el hispanismo el problema no es el hispanismo el problema son las personas radicales que hay en los movimientos sociopolíticos
You know, perhaps, that Italians were considered "not White" during the great US immigrant wave of the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Irish were very White, but they were the most disliked and discriminated against (except perhaps Jews), with "no Irish" signs being common in businesses. The Irish were unpopular for a very good reason: they were far more likely to be drunks and to behave badly.
For me the only time anyone has said anything about my appearance was from a Mexican who told me that all the girls where he was from looked like me (brown skin and dark haired) . He was really into my roommate . She’s Mexican too but with very white skin and dark hair . He complimented her a lot . The point of this is that he mentioned my looks and showed his interest in my roommate before he even knew that I wasn’t even interested in him . That was what really irked me about the interaction. The audacity for him to assume I was interested in him and for him to right away say what he said . And the cherry on top was that he was DARKER skinned than me .
Thanks you for sharing. I hope we can get over these stupid cultural historical biases and crazy twisted ideas of race and hierarchy it’s so stupid. I hope we can all move on together in a more equitable world.
I am Mexican-American. I am very light skinned, and have light brown hair. The term used to describe people like me here in Los Angeles growing up (by other Mexican Americans) was "white-Mexican". Growing up, my family would often vacation in Mexico. While there, I came to notice that in Mexico (1970's) that all the best jobs in the department stores, the pharmacies, the nice restaurants, were also given to light skinned Mexicans. Mexicans in charge wanted to project this to the tourist. It has always bothered me. I thought it was disturbingly hypocritical knowing that many Mexican Americans in the U.S. felt they were being discriminated against here. I believe, because of their skin color, they would have been discriminated against more, if they lived in Mexico!
People told me that there seemed to be a major height difference from the southern most regions of Mexico vs the northern regions or border areas of Mexico to the USA. It was common from what I hear that Mexican men look only 5'5" on average in height in their southern regions near Central America but Mexican men look 5'10" on average in their northern regions like in Chihuahua and Monterrey. Saw that Mexican men are 5'8" on average so thus most be a balance from region to region in Mexico. Having regional differences is common in any country because Wikipedia says that Germany has a 10 cm or 4 inch average height difference between its own provinces and Italy has a 8 cm or 4 inch average height difference between its provinces as well.
I posted earlier about the economic factors concerning this topic but felt I had something to add specific topic of the video. I believe what she is discussing is something that is mostly contained within a specific country or group of countries which closely share the same culture (this might or might not exist). I've spoken to friends from Switzerland and Italy about this...... and they both voiced the same thing. They see US citizens as "the same" regardless of race or culture. Meaning the people from the US have more in common with each other regardless of race/ethnicity than they do with people outside of the US. So from their perspective, they may either like or hate US citizens (or something in between) based on the fact that they are from the US, not based on the race/ethnicity of the individual. When I think about Mexico its the same....... my concerns are whether I can successfully communicate with Mexicans (i'm studying spanish currently) and whether I get along well with them and can enjoy good conversation etc.... whether the girl is pretty......but at no time have i had thoughts about castizo, mestizo, quano, merano (I actually had to look up these words for this post). I understand that these things might have a meaning inside the country of Mexico and within the culture (I suspect it might be different from state to state or city to city) but for people not from Mexico......we have not been raised in your culture so these things are ideas we're not familiar with. To speak frankly, I would easily be friends with people I enjoy being around and feel I can trust than I would with people who I don't enjoy and don't feel I can trust..... their ethnic background is not of primary importance. I'm not going to choose my friends or who i'm interested in dating based on some caste system that exists within their culture but that I don't even fully understand because I was not raised in that culture. As romantic relationships are concerned..... I think its pretty common for people of any given country to find foreign accents "sexy". One might even say that some of us get bored with people who speak just like us (or have cultures just like ours) and new and interesting accents can be seen as exotic. The same for people who look just like we do.... I'm sure there are people who are attracted more to people who look like themselves but then there are also people who are specifically more attracted to people who look different. There are 7+ billion people in the world....there's plenty of room for anyone to have their preferences and I'd say that regardless of how any of us look, there are people who will find us attractive. At the end of the day, I think kindness, humility, friendliness and self-confidence (not ego) are the most attractive qualities in a person regardless of anything else. In short.... there might be this unfair separation of peoples within Mexico defined by the culture (and this is probably true of all countries to a large extent) but I don't think it extends to people from other countries when interacting with the people of Mexico. But again, this is just a mental exercise and I don't know enough about the topic to claim I'm making statements of fact. Your mileage may vary. If there is some type of unofficial caste system within your culture (for any of our countries), then take action when and where you can. This means, in yourself. None of us can force anyone else to believe anything. The only thing we can control is ourselves. So we should ask ourselves if we are choosing our doctor because they are the best doctor available to us or if we're choosing the doctor because the doctor looks like us. This is a great example because for something as important as your health, its clear that you'd want to choose the best doctor and the background of the doctor isn't relevant. And that same logic applies to everything. EDIT: on the point of "pride". I suppose I can understand the concept of group pride if you have felt that you've been unfairly ostracized in some fashion.....however, my personal viewpoint is that pride as a concept only makes sense in terms of my viewpoint of myself based upon my own beliefs and actions. Whether my great-great grandfather was a great leader or a murderer says nothing about me as an individual. I'm not guilty of the sins of a criminal ancestor nor did I earn any praise for actions of a great ancestor that I took no part in. And pride based on being part of some social group is even more far fetched. I think its far simpler than that...... when I look into the mirror, am I proud of who I am....my own actions, my own beliefs.
The problem is that a lot of the discrimination in latin america is normalized, so a lot of people don't see anything wrong with it, and are not even aware of what they're doing, we're raised in that mindset, constantly being told white is beautiful and indigenous and/or black is ugly, so is difficult for a lot of people to admit that they're biased or that they act a certain way when they think they're not like that.
@@priscilarosario1891 i don't doubt you and I'm sorry to hear it. The "they" who are constantly telling you that is the media.....tv, films, news, celebrities...... I would suggest to everyone to ignore them. The media and those who pay media are none of our friends. its nothing more than propaganda and from what you're saying....the things they "teach" us are hurtful and have a negative impact. If any of us want to know about reality..... speak to the people who you know have your best interests in mind....your friends and family. I would not assume that I can speak about things within the country of Mexico.....instead I listen to people who live there to explain things to me so that I can learn. I'm only speaking of people from outside Mexico who are only learning about Mexican culture but who have not yet participated in it. I care not the shade of your skin but I do care a great deal about if you are a kind and caring person who I can trust...and if we can enjoy each others company. And I wish that would be the way it is for everyone. I will add this. I think there will always be some people to look down on any of us. I know there are people who look down on me. But what I have found, during my long life, which is most important is my opinion of myself.....and I do not base my opinion of myself on the viewpoint of others who may not care for me. take care and thank you for helping me understand things better.
@@priscilarosario1891 yeah I've very sorry to hear that but it does make sense. Many people allow themselves to be "told" what to believe by the media. I do think you're right that people are slowly waking up. In the meantime, people like you and me can try to live our lives free of outside influence....and find our friends among good people. I think the best thing that we can do is lead by example. Live our lives in such a way as to show the people around us that there is another, better way of living our lives. I do believe that leading by example works. I've seen it work in my life. I'm glad there are thoughtful people like you in the world.
My spouse (Mexicana-brown skinned) watches novelas and I asked her why are all the top actors are white, green-blue eyes while the servants in those shows are all dark skinned brown?
I have been surprised when in Mexico they insult each other by calling them selves Indian in Puerto Rico people who have Indian blood is a source of pride as well in many parts of the US even politicians try to say they have Indian ancestry
Yes but in Puerto Rico being called African or black is a insult while in Mexico it isn't lol . Carribean parade their taino ancestry while Mexican parade their African even though both are minimal in both places lol
I'm from El Paso, TX, most people in the border are morena clara or light skinned. but for sure alot of us are mixed. When I was growing up the few kids that were dark were treated bad even by the teachers.
Hi, fellow Mexican here! Thank so much for doing this video and discussing these important topics! I think it is so essential to discuss them more in the public arena, both in Mexico and in the whole world. I could really resonate with a lot of the feelings and thoughts you shared :) The colonial system that abused and discriminated against our indigenous ancestors has present and harmful repercussions in our current Mexican society. There’s a hypocritical narrative in our society in which we celebrate and brag about the remaining of pre-Hispanic cultures for commercial purposes (tourism) while we continue to discriminate against present surviving indigenous communities and brown skinned people as a whole. We are somehow taught that being brown skinned is not something to feel pretty about and to share indigenous cultural traits is not something to be proud about either :( I believe a good way to break free form these near sighted chains of the mind which we have acquired is learning about human diversity through anthropology and to challenge our social constructs through sociology. That and going to therapy is part of the process of deconstruction :)
Since you are in Querétaro and so close to Hidalgo, you should take your husband to Mexico’s little British corner in Pachuca/Real del Monte (Mexico’s “Little Cornwall) where the Cornish settled and worked in the mines! Cornish pastys are the staple brought by the British. It’s fascinating to see the legacy the British left in the architecture and culture and many families of 6th and more generations in Hidalgo. Dunia Ludlow is Mexico City’s urban planner currently and is a descendant of these immigrants! Cheers! Y saludos desde Michoacán! :)
@@LaKarencitaMX a must!! Especially since it might still be chilly outside haha both Real del Monte and Pachuca are worth it to see this legacy unknown by many! Such pretty places! The English also brought football to Mexico! The English cemetery is so beautiful which is creepy but true and there’s a little Tea House right outside with a beautiful view and a mini museum of the British and when Prince Charles and Camilla went to visit a few years back! And they even have some British pubs haha night not be open because of the pandemic but worth it if they are! Big Ben Pub and a few others that take you back to the UK! Can’t wait to travel with you via your videos haha take care! And keep uploading awesome videos like this one! :)
I'm wondering with lighter skinned Mexican people if they do tan up after while or do they take precautions ? I live in Australia and am tanned from the weather here but from a distance I would look white but close up I'm tanned. I know it's not all about the shade of your skin as indigenous people would have slightly different facial features etc. If a country is very diverse like Mexico then we need to embrace the differences and reflect more positively beyond the whole surface. happy to hear your Vietnam stories as I've been there many times myself.
When the Spanish arrived in Mexico, they realized that they did not have the strength to defeat the Aztecs, so they made a pact with the Tlaxcalans to defeat them ..... and there began the mixture of races or mestizaje, almost exclusively between a Spanish man and an indigenous woman, the mestizo children were raised apart from the indigenous and learned to admire and love the "" white "" culture of his father and even they created the phrase "" Tienes que mejorar la raza"" ( you have to improve the race ) which meant to marry someone whiter than you ... the rule was: the son of Spanish and indigenous is mestizo, the son of mestizo and Spanish is castizo and the son of castizo and Spanish is Criollo or Spanish (white), this explains why people with indigenous appearance are depreciated by the majority of the mestizo or castizo population.
@ger san At first the Spanish united with the indigenous, simply because they needed them and the Spanish crown established the Castas system as a result of the large number of mestizos who were born and who demanded to maintain some of their rights as descendants of the conquerors. The first mestizos were educated by their parents, because there were no churches or convents in the first years after the conquest,.. only the descendants of Spaniards could be Criollos and the authorities made sure of this, by writing the casta of the baby's parents in the official birth document, discrimination against indigenous people has been around for a long time and Mexico is still very racist, as can be seen in the racial insults against actress Yalitza Aparicio made by other Mexican actresses or the fact that it's considered that in Los Altos de Jalisco, the ""whitest"" region in Mexico, has the most beautiful Mexican women .... obviously none of these women have indigenous characteristics.
You’re explanation is correct I think 👌🏼 the history of Mexico is so much more complicated than black and white (i.e Spanish vs indigenous). There is a lot of gray area. However, there are people in my country 🇺🇸 that try to create a divide between lighter skinned Mexicans and darker skinned Mexicans because the goal is the same as before: divide and conquer !
@ger san Racism in Mexico manifests itself differently than in other countries, because most of the population is of mixed race, there was never racial segregation between indigenous, Spanish or mixed race people ... I have relatives who are blacker than night and whiter than Moon,. Racism in Mexico is so curious that a Mexican can be very proud of his Aztec roots and at the same time be insolent with today's indigenous people.
@ger san You have a point, most of the indigenous people are very poor and... curiously, many rich people are white, I don't know if the Mexican is more classist than racist. but money definitely makes you 100% respectable, no matter that you look completely indigenous.
@Dr. Nick The Europeans are concerned by the theory of the """Great replacement""" and in the North-americans by the ""White genocide"".... they worry about the disappearance of their culture and mainly of their ""race"" ..... ironic..., when in America, a continent that should be completely ""brown"", there are a huge amount of white people and people of mixed race, actually, people of original American ""race"", are now a minority.
We also have the same problem in the Philippines. So many filipinos want to marry a foreigner to have mixed babies or what we call “mestizo” babies because almost 60% of the media and telenovelas in the Philippines are atleast half white or half something else. The media definitely needs to represent more groups of people.
My grandma always told me brown skin Mexicans have more Aztec blood then light skin Mexicans...my grandma use to teach catholic school in nahuatl to Indigenous Mexicans to bad I only learned a few nahuatl songs but not the actual language before she passed away
I'm actually German but mixed white/Asian with a bit darker skin. Everyone in México of course assumes I'm Mexican. It was funny as I am generally treated a bit less nice than my white peers while in México but as soon as people find out I'm from Germany they suddenly change. I came to realise that speaking fluent Spanish is actually a disadvantage as just speaking English everyone would immediately assume I'm not Mexican and treat me better lol. The whole Classism / Colourism thing about Latin America is a shame.
I believe all women look beautiful in their natural skin tone (and this includes you!). It is when they try to change their colour they start to look unnatural...
We say nopal en la frente when someone seems to deny their mexican or native roots but don't know if it's right since we can make mistakes in our judgements.
Yes! Without a doubt. Whites and Whiter skinned Mexicans are treated much better everywhere you go in Mexico. Darker skinned Mexican’s have to end the discrimination!
The best revenge is to live well. The indigenous people need to educate themselves and create more profitable businesses, as the Jews and Chinese immigrants have, even when they were severely impoverished.
@@nicmart People like you fail to understand the systems in place to prevent certain groups of people from succeeding as a people. The Chinese in America enjoy the cover of our trade with China. The White Jews are protected, the brown and Black Jews erased. Black individuals can succeed however, Black Movements are viciously shutdown. That's why in every Black Community the Businesses are less than 1% owned by Black People...
kind of weird im the opposite and i am mexican. i always hated haiving lighter skin because i did not stand out like my family . I would to go outside all the time without sunscreen to get darker.
Hola Karen, nunca entenderé , porque la gente le da más importancia a la apariencia exterior, que a lo interior ,. Cuando lo exterior tarde o temprano se deteriorará, pero la inteligencia, las virtudes y principios siempre permanecerán!!
So I'm black American and I'm an administrator at my job. One of the cleaning ladies used to ask my strange questions about my hair. Like all the time. She saw my daughter's picture on my monitor and started asking me about my daughter's hair. I thought it was odd but then she started doing super weird things like mopping and sweeping under my desk while I sat at my desk. Now this woman can barely speak proper English but turns out she's racist against Black people. Another Hispanic lady in my office told me she hates black people. I almost died laughing y'all. Really I did. Her skin is the same color as mine. I guess she thinks in her mind she is "better" than me 🤣😂😆😄 there delusion is real y'all. Just ignore them and live your life while you're here.
@@g.torres9551please what kind of stupid excuse is that ? black Americans do not represent all black people, they are so many different ethnicities, nationalities…she’s just racist
Thank you for sharing this video, you are very right about the internalized racism that exists in our country, I hope you can continue talking about this in the future. Thanks.
it's obvious that the earliest Americans were mostly from Asia. All shades are beautiful. It must be difficult to be undervalued. I am an american Jew of eastern European ancestry. On those surveys, I with there was a space of Ashkenazi Jewish, but I end up checking white. I don't necessarily resent looking white, but sometimes I wish there was some outward identifier. Great channel!
Understand that what dark skin humans have experienced stems from hate which has been transmitted towards our skin simply because SUNSHINE loves it. It is a gift that we must acknowledge and USE to create within the divine laws of MOTHER (nature)
I would suspect that those who look down on dark-skinned people also to some degree have no problem with a manager exploiting his workers and the value of their labor.
This video made my day. I can say I relate to you so much. I am dark skin and I have always felt less than among my siblings because they all are lighter than me. It's something that I don't think they can fully understand as this feeling is only felt if you are actually dark skinned in a culture that say" dark skin is ugly" Another thing, I also married a " guerro" and have two beautiful babies. What I want to add to this to stress the disparity is that, even my own mother takes a better liking to my children who are light skinned that my nieces and nephews , who are dark skinned. Racism and prejudice is well and alive in Mexico!
Eres muy valiente a hablar de algo que muchas chicas morenas hemos sentido, te felicito y lo importante es aceptarse y sentirse orgullosa de tus raíces, al igual que tu me he sentido discriminada por mexicanos hasta en tu propia familia escuchas, frases como: ese niño(a) está muy bonito(a) es güerito(a), "Se mejoró la raza". Pero haciendo una reflexión es la sencillez, originalidad y seguridad que uno proyecte hacia la sociedad lo que realmente importa.
I really like your videos. Please do not change your appearance, or especially your personality, based on what you feel other people think of you. Just take their criticism, store it away somewhere in memory and keep doing what you are doing. There is no reason to allow others to dictate how you should live your life.
I don't see nothing rong being dark color I love it I'm from Mexico and I'm White and always had problems because my friends they used to call me guerinche because of my color sohe doesn't matter if you're brown black or white or any color you're going to have problems so we have to be happy the way we're right.
I lived in central Mexico in the 80s. I saw what you are describing. It does go back to the colonial era. Even in families you'd meet, the contrasts in kids skin tones would lead to a mothers commenting on her pride in her fair son, and then this is my little indian girl.
Iba bien hasta que presentó a su esposo.
Está como mi presidente López Obrador: predicando a favor de los pobres (la mayoría prietos) y casándose con una criolla picada de alemán.
El mismo caso de Saúl Reyna: adora a su raza mexicana pero para casarse prefirió a una blanca sajona.
Para mi modo de ver, estos son los peores racistas porque dicen una cosa y hacen otra.
¿Qué podría ser más racista que criticar a las parejas mixtas?
Gracias por ejemplificar el racismo del que hablo en el video. Muchos extranjeros ven los videos y tu comentario los ayudará a entender las actitudes problemáticas que existen entre algunos mexicanos.
@@LaKarencitaMX ¿De entre cincuenta millones de mestizos no te gustó ninguno?
@@enriquegranados5179 Usted se equivoca. Seleccionar pareja tomando en cuenta únicamente la raza como factor es la definición de racismo.
@@enriquegranados5179 que ridículo eres, no es racista salir con alguien extranjero, así como tener gustos de otro país...
@@Winkingcoconuttree Che bola de acomplejados, defendiendo al prieto desde la cama de un güero o güera.
¡Patéticos!
Thank you for this. I'm an African American, and I have always had an interest in the indigenous history of Mexico and Central America. I was shocked when I found out that people today who have the beautiful features of their ancestors were discriminated against today in Latin America. Darker skinned Mexicans with indigenous blood have an incredible history to celebrate and be proud of.
I think it happens to everyone bud. Sad but true. It's happened to me as well. It's a horrible feeling for sure!😓
Look up Afro Mexicans, they’re PROUD to be black. There’s not much recognition of black Mexicans. If you find the video of Afro Mexicans and the black Mexicans singer, it’s a start in Latin America where Latinos embrace and recognize their Afro roots.
I agree.
Agree, as USA native i love reading and learning about other natives, Mexico indigenous have beautiful art, regalia and their food is delicious
@Treavor Martin I understand your situation, as I have heard of that issue before. But I didn't understand your last sentence. Can you clarify?
My parents are from Mexico. My mother from Colima Colima and my father's from Parral Chihuahua. My mother and father met here in San Francisco California and raise five boys. I am the youngest and also the darkest in my family. Growing up here people thought I was black and I learn the n-word at the age of 5 years old. As I got older and went into college I decided to study my ancestry. When I went to Parral Chihuahua to visit my dad's family, I found that I was not the darkest one anymore. Seeing that my aunt's family lived off the land and studying the history of Parral. I realized that we were directly descendant from the Raramuri of the Copper Canyon and this is where we get our dark skin from. When I travel in Mexico and meet other tribes, they're very proud that I admit to being indigenous.
Good for you. We all should be proud of who we are and live our life in the happy Way. Cheers from California.
A lot of people are ignorant because they lack education and true And honest understanding of our history.
@@jamescc2010 thank you.
You've just Made me cry, My friend. Totally loved ur comment.
Hey brother, i am from Parral. I was born in a neighbor town called San Francisco del Oro and moved to the bay area when i finished college.
Good for you. Mexican Natives hold most of the good that we have as a culture. It’s the Spanish culture that crapped all over our Native roots.
Yes!!! Very well-done!!! And be very proud of your roots!!!!! 👏👏👏👏
Colorism is such an ugly thing in so many cultures. Thanks for sharing this perspective.
Amen Ra. Hey the Spanish introduced a whole colorism chart to the Americas.
@@Katharsis540 Please cite your information.
@@buelnanews Amen!
New hip word: colorism eh? 🧐
@@longliveavalon just cause you don’t know something doesn’t make it new.
I grew up in Texas and even though I’m a light skinned Mexican American when I was growing up I was told by other kids to go back to Mexico and got called a wet back. When I met people from Mexico they called me a gringo but to the real gringos I was as Mexican as poncho villa. Now that I’m older and live in the northeast, everyone thinks I’m white or European. The funny thing is my mother took a dna test recently and found out she’s over 60% Native American. You can’t always tell by color what someone’s ethnicity is.
@Brown Dragon I don’t think my biological father’s had the same kind of dna test done but I always assumed his side was more indigenous because my grandfather had a darker complexion and his facial features caused him to appear more Native American while my mother’s side is lighter.
@@75daddygonzo bro im in the same situation im not as brown as my mom but im not as white as trump too, im just in the middle, not to mention I have a very indigenous face but pale skin. But im always proud of looking indigenous, just makes me feel like a bad ass Emiliano Zapata🇲🇽
You could be European with dark skin or Latin American with light skin, People are mixing all time
Mexicans are native Americans who had their culture stolen by Spain.
My situation is similar but different. My dad is mixed black and Mexican and my mom is mostly indigenous Mexican so I took a few dna tests and I’m typically around 30%- 44% Native and 35% African and 25-37% Spanish. But my features got so mixed up I came out mostly getting confused for Polynesian or Hawaiian and some type of Islander😂 to other Mexicans or indigenous I. Either that or just a black dude and to whites I’m either just black or Filipino or Polynesian and then to blacks I’m always something else I’ve heard Indonesian Malaysian Bangladesh 😂
why is so bad to look like indigenous people or I mean asian? We are smart, good strong hair, brown skin and the sun loves us.We do not get sunburn....maybe it`s self-hatred?
it might be self-hatred sometimes, but it didn't come out of nothing: it's been 500 years of european colonization and eurocentrism. people with european features have had/kept more privilege and power (as commented on the video). what happens to/in the minds of people who are constantly seeing, hearing that indigenous and african features are deemed ugly, worthless, undesirable?
it might not be self-hatred at all: it's all those centuries behind us, upon us, around us (or, as it is believed in some cultures: in front of us, since the past is something we already know and can see).
fortunately, more and more people have begun to question that and realize that it doesn't have to be like that anymore. it's happening in all of the americas and around the globe, where colonization set(s) its foot. communications and networks in these internet times are helping a lot to de-colonize our minds, bodies and cultures. technology is serving a purpose. yt channels like this are a very good example of all that : )
Indigenous [to the Americas] people are not Asian. They are Native American
The problem is not “Looking Asian”, there are fair skinned Mexicans that look Asian and no one has a problem with it. The thing that people have a problem with is having “dark skin” in general, it doesn’t matter if you “look Asian” or not, dark skin is seen as ugly, dirty, disgusting, and undesirable.
I get burned in the sun :(
This happens all over the world due to what white supremacy has done to all cultures, from inside the diaspora. Let us not forget that the dark skin signifies being Aboriginal everywhere on the planet. We have covered the globe biblically and historically. Be proud of your dark skin. We have Melanin and we have been around for a long, long time. That protects you as this world comes to a close with environmental issues, like UV rays. Being fair skinned won’t be a good thing when that happens.
My grandma (from Mexico) discriminates her own kids and grandkids that are darker skin. It’s insane and sad. Our own people are the most racist with their own.
You mean the white descendants from Europe yes they are racists and not only the white Mexicans but the rest of the white hispanics in all of Latin America as well
Since Spain was colonized for 750 years from dark brown Moores and dark yellowish Arabs before colonizing Mexico. Meaning by the time they were about to colonize Mexico most Spaniards were born from dark brown Arab women and black women and some even had Arab/Afro dark brown father's. But because of the extensive admixture some Spaniards were born of light complexion almost white with very curly hair. Thus, they hated the idea that indigenous would look the same for Europeans would bully Spaniards for their dark complexion. Thus, their insecurities were transfered to the mestizo people (people of spanish and indigenous mix), which is today Latin America.
@@eddyboh2723 fuck spain
I have and aunt that discriminates own her own kids for been born brown skin. Thats why she married my uncle so she could have white kids. But it didn’t turn out that way. And she discriminates on them for that
Many Mexican people were racist towards Asians . Irony with the DNA tests.
Dark skinned girls (Morena's) are very attractive
As a white skinned Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) I agree, they’re my type ngl.
@@liloaktree4595sorry dude but i was born white skinned and tbf dark skinned hispanics can be weird and ugly sometimes..
However they also worship white dudes as gods 😂
You are such a wonderful person for bringing up this topic! I believe it originated from the Spaniards way of dominating the indigenous people. The lighter skin you are, the more benefits. Systemic racism which is still very alive today. My father is from Chile and my mother is from Honduras. I was born in Philadelphia. In my family there are light skin relatives because our great, great grandfather was English. I remember growing up that my light skin cousins would get preferential treatment in my own family. Yet, out of all my relatives, I'm the only one with a bachelor and masters degree, currently working on a doctorate degree. I'm glad to hear that you don't consider yourself any less than light skinned people. Marrying an Englishman is not making your race any better. I'm married to a Japanese because I'm attracted to my wife and what makes her unique. It's sad when light skinned people cannot accept other races. Love is color blind but hate isn't.
Exactly, you are so in point
Oh, Man. What a great comment. Many greetings.
Love isn’t color blind. It sees all that you are and doesn’t have a problem with it. If we don’t have to be blind to hair color, eye color, weight or height, we don’t need to be blind to skin color...unless you have a problem with it.
It’s OK to see skin color
" Marrying an Englishman is not making your race any better."
Or worse! I often hear people make the inverse argument; both are not true (though of course it was true in the historical past, as you exemplified in your example of the Spaniards). As you say, love is color blind, it shouldn't matter who you are with, it should not matter what culture, ethnicity, or race they are.
It's opposite in USA, my kids are mad at me bc they're 1/4 white, they wish they were full native, told them to blame gma not me for marrying a white man.
The lady in this video is light brown she's not dark. I have a medium brown complexion my skin is just like a copper penny. She's not as Dark as I am. Be proud of your dark skin it protects u from skin cancer
Yeah she isn't super dark. I know a Thai girl that is much darker. Her skin tone is somewhere in the middle.
@@rjmurphyo0 true
Exactly lol.
I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light but I find brown/dark skinned Latinas more attractive, exotic, and sexy in my opinion. I’m saying that the other colors are ugly, they’re not. It’s just that they aren’t really my type
I know right
Dark skin also makes it more likely that you will be vitamin D deficient. Nature is cruel.
You just literally described exactly how I feel as a Brazilian! We have the exact same issue...
I feel like in Brazil people have been talking a lot about it recently and we are starting to see more representation little by little in the media.
Brafrica 😂
@@martincito1662 Africa is a continent full of beautiful culture and its where all of us human beings come from, so I'll take that as a compliment! 🙂
Que prefieres Brazika o Brasida??
Francis I am very surprised to hear about this in Brazil. Everyone is so mixed there so why would dark skin be a problem? What can the beauty standard be in Brazil if everyone is so mixed?
Brasil is has the 3rd largest white population in the world after Russia and the United States
Yes as a gringa in Mexico I was rather shocked when I heard my European looking Mexican neighbors talking about some relative that married a dark skinned man in a belittling way, having come from California I thought I was leaving that sort of bigotry behind.
But frankly this has always been the European colonialist way to keep 'the natives' subservient to their exploitation by making them feel 'less'... shameful really. Fortunately I was never raised that way by my doctor father, who always said that if you cut someone open, we are all the same inside. Simplistic and perhaps crude, but still an important lesson for me growing up and for everyone with delusions of grandeur simply because of a superficial skin color.
Sorry, it's not just "the European colonialist way to keep 'the natives' subservient" - it goes back centuries in countries all over the world before they even encountered Europeans, more to do with various caste or class systems than race, particularly in hot countries. people who would farm outside all day would have more tanned skin, whilst the upper caste or royalty etc would be inside more and have paler skin. We also aren't all the same inside either, different bloodtypes, genetics, DNA, different subseptibility to different illnesses. People with paler skin are more prone to skin cancer over many years in hot countries, people with darker skin are more prone to colds and flu's in colder climates due to not being able to absorb enough Vitamin D from the weaker amount of sunlight .
@@billbird6494 Yea, but all that(different bloodtypes, genetics, DNA, different susceptibility to different illnesses) happened because of conditioning, IA Gringa is correct in what she said. You can change your genetics through generational conditioning, through diet and life style changes, and being consistent with it. Plus, I know you're going to say you can't change or control blood types and DNA, but you can, not your own blood or DNA, the change would come in the 20th generation and onward that come after you.
Shut up you live in Mexico to feel special and for attention because you know Mexicans treat white people better than Mexicans! Your daddy issues are showing
That's crazy bc us mixed breeds in USA wish we were more indigenous, at least me, I know my mom is full blood and my dad claims a indigenous great gma but I'm white looking but my brother is darker.
Colorism happens everywhere unfortunately. It happens in the middle east too, where some Arabs look European with blonde hair and blue eyes, or even in India. Even though you may not see many blondes in India, colorism is strong and alive there too.
My grandfather had to break off relations with his parents because he married a morena. This was back in the 1920's, the family was wealthy and they didn't like her at all. One day he came home and asked where his wife was --she wanted to prepare his dinner so they sent her out to the servant's kitchen. He threw a fit, insisting that she was his wife and they must treat her so, when they refused... he got his wife and left. He died before I was born so I never met him but he had light skin and green eyes. Their children (my mom the youngest and all the aunts and uncles) were every shade inbetween. My mom said you never wanted to make him mad, because his green eyes looked terrifying when he was mad, lol. Anywho, you're darned right there's colorism. It's part of my family history! It seems to pop up in every country where imperialism left it's mark. GL, and TY for your time reading this.
Wow how sad...😢😢😢
I passed as native in Mexico. But I was actually born in the US to parents from Southeast Asia. Regardless, while I was visiting Mexico, while traveling with my white buddies, it became clear that Mexicanas preferred them over me. So I voted with my feet and soon left Latin America. I would advise folks with the same look to do the same or avoid Latin America, except for short tourism.
Man this happened to me in the usa (I live in the USA btw ) my cousin is lowkey lighter then me and we met distant cousins and I could immediately tell they preferred him over me due to the difference in our skin color I just walked away and didn’t bother to shake their hands , why waste my time on family who will also look down upon me because of my skin , this is so common to I had a friend who was as dark as me but he has family member who were like white skinned they made fun of him because of his skin color once I heard this I knew there was a racist culture in Mexico towards darker skinned Mexicans , man I’m proud of my skin now and I don’t ever let people make fun of my origins and where my parents are from
Costa Rica is okay though.
This is called ignorance and because whiteness is pushed by the white hispanic latins in Mexico since the time of hispanic colonialism. In the USA this is pushed as well. This is also part of the strategy to divide and prevent Pan Nativism. In truth, all Indigenous people are part of the Asian family.
Cuando te digo que yo no puedo con este tema... Hace años estaba viendo un programa en un canal mexicano... Uno de los que ponen en las mañanas. Y salió una jovencita saludando a su tío o a su primo que trabajaba en los EE.UU. diciendo, "Y tráeme un novio con ojos azules para mejorar la raza." ¡Cómo me encabroné! Y ni siquiera soy mexicana, sino negra norteamericana. Puede que sea un dicho común y según algunos inofensivo pero a mí, me dio coraje. Digo, qué tiene de malo su raza para necesitar mejoría??? Y es más, cómo se puede llamar un canal profesional y respetuoso, y permite que una persona se ponga ahí delante del mundo entero para difundir esa ignorancia???" Sencillamente no puedo. Pero gracias por tratar este tema importante.
Es una expresión "divertida" en México para referirse que quieres una pareja más "atractiva" que Tú. No solamente la usan con nacionalidades , sino con rasgos físicos , altura, y en menor grado inteligencia. Pero pues no está bien decirla, es estúpido
Yo recuerdo que mi mamá siempre me dicia que ella "mejoró la raza" conmigo porque uno de los hombres con los que salia era negro (y por negro me refiero a que en efecto, tenía sangre negra) pero ella tuvo una aventura con el que fue mi padre, trigueño y de cabello oscuro, así que no solo lo usan con la gente blanca y sí, es horrible como el racismo/colorismo es normalizado, yo también recuerdo mucho cuando alguien nombraba algo de color de piel, mi hermana y todos bien dizque orgullosos "Es que nuestro bisabuelo era español, oh oh" como si fuese algo que te hiciera mejor, a pesar de que ninguno de nosotros eramos blancos, pero trigueños... En su momento como niña nunca le presté atención a estas cosas y si creía que era algo que me hacía mejor pero ahora puedo razonar y decir lo horrible que es lo que dicen en nuestros países
Este tipo de lenguaje percibido como aceptable, lo es cuando NO se es consciente del racismo internalizado y normalizado en la cultura y por la poca responsabilidad de los medios masivos de checar su discurso colonialista.
Yo soy de Ecuador y me horroriso que un jugador ecuatoriano fue insultado por un pasa bolas en un partido en Mexico usando su color de piel, ya que los deportistas de mi pais son de raza negra, incluso yo tengo al menos un 30% de herencia negra. Yo demostre mi inconformidad en los comentarios del video y tristemente muchos mexicanos se pusieron del lado del pasabolas y minimizando el problema. Es cierto que este jugador se indigno y actuo agresivamente pero nunca se tomo medidas en contra del que empezo todo. Si hubiera sucedido eso o lo que tu nos contaste en Estados Unidos, Europa o incluso mi pais que esta en Sudamerica si hubieran habido serias consecuencias. Yo voy a visitar Mexico en un par de meses y creo que es un pais hermoso, pero en temas raciales se queda muy atras igual que en algunas partes de Asia y tambien lo digo por otras experiencias que he tenido con ellos en alguna otra ocacion. Por supuesto todos debemos mejorar y es importante sacar todo esto para que alguien lo lea y su corazon se ablande y entienda que esta mal este tipo de cosas. Gracias por compartirlo.
@@DavidMartinez-im6ln es un país racista y clasista pero tu se auténtico y dónde quieras vas a caer bien. Yo soy de México y si hay muchas actitudes que no deberían ser.
I'm white and my husband is a medium dark Mexican. Our children are "leche con café ". The variety of colors in people makes our world BEAUTIFUL.
My darker children have experienced prejudice here in the U.S. I have never heard my husband speak of prejudice about himself. He's from the state of Coahuila born in 1948.
Yeah every color is beautiful and prejudice sucks. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I love dark skinned latinas because they’re beautiful 😍. In fact, every color is :)
Yeah every color is beautiful and prejudice sucks. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I love dark skinned latinas because they’re beautiful 😍. In fact, every color is :)
Yeah every color is beautiful and prejudice sucks. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I love dark skinned latinas because they’re beautiful 😍. In fact, every color is :)
Yeah every color is beautiful and prejudice sucks. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I love dark skinned latinas because they’re beautiful 😍. In fact, every color is :)
Yeah every color is beautiful and prejudice sucks. I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I love dark skinned latinas because they’re beautiful 😍. In fact, every color is :)
While discussing Native American origins on the other video, lots of trolls were throwing back handed pseudo scientific comments implying Natives are "somehow primitive" it's unreal, that's why speaking of race is very controversial, you'll always have people still trying to defend obsolete ideals. It's a shame we were taught to ignore our Native heritage and there's people keen on keeping it that way.
It was always a useless ideal it’s always to promote Eurocentric ideas
Even though they have 3 civilizations that are were in the top ten most advanced civilizations, archeologist know our people were advanced.
I'm a very fair skinned Mexican woman. My 1st husband was Dutch/Norweigan with blonde hair and blue eyes. My skin tone was still whiter than him!
When I was 21 yrs old, my sister and I went to Puerto Vallarta. We were standing in line to get into a nightclub, and even though we were 1st in line, the door guys were hand picking the blonds or brown haired people from the line. They spoke fluent English and we told them we were from CA, but that seem to matter. We had the wrong color hair according to them.
This wasn't the only time, we experienced discrimination in Mexico. :(
Great video, it brings awareness to this topic. I’m Mexican with dark skin too. We are just a different flavor to the many beautiful flavors in our human race. The idea that darker skin makes you less than lighter skin is nonsense. Let’s all enjoy each other and embrace our differences.
Preach 👏🏻
Amazing comment, I wish more people were like this.
I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I prefer dating dark skinned Latinas because I find them more exotic and sexy. I hope I don’t sound weird but they’re just my type. I don’t hate other races and I’m not saying the other colors are ugly, it’s just that they’re my type, as I said before. I just wish that this dumb racist stuff ends, it’s pretty annoying.
Amazing comment, I wish more people were like this.
I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I prefer dating dark skinned Latinas because I find them more exotic and sexy. I hope I don’t sound weird but they’re just my type. I don’t hate other races and I’m not saying the other colors are ugly, it’s just that they’re my type, as I said before. I just wish that this dumb racist stuff ends, it’s pretty annoying.
Amazing comment, I wish more people were like this.
I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I prefer dating dark skinned Latinas because I find them more exotic and sexy. I hope I don’t sound weird but they’re just my type. I don’t hate other races and I’m not saying the other colors are ugly, it’s just that they’re my type, as I said before. I just wish that this dumb racist stuff ends, it’s pretty annoying.
I'm a USA half-breed and I prefer dark skinned indigenous, I prefer the ones who are into their culture bc I love learning about other indigenous cultures.
your a dark skin beauty, Skin color dosen't mean any thing it's who you are, and you are a beauty person
Agree. I don't think skin colour defines us and I'm very comfortable now. But it seems it wasn't always like this.
She isn't dark skin at all. She's tan.
She’s tan. I’m darker than her and neither am I dark skin. I’m just a darker shade of brown.
She is not dark at all. She’s ever so slightly tinted.
I agree that she is not dark. But as a Mexican this is what society thinks. It permeates everything. Did you watch Roma the Neftlix movie? Many famous mexican actors came out against the main actress for being “dark”. Completely unprovoked. And it shows how society sees this. It is a real thing in Mexico. I will say though it is not as toxic as in other counties. This is not politicized or discussed too much in the media. Though some may say that is a problem too. I also think religion has a lot to do with this. But invoking religion may bring the wrath of the trolls over me.
As a brown skinned Mexican myself, I often see an internalized self-hatred that I can only assume was reinforced by thing like novelas throughout their lives. Idk, maybe I'm seeing it wrong. Would like to know what others think 😊
Yes you’re right. Racism is taught and for us Latinos it dates back to the colonial days when the Spanish introduced it.
I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I hate racism, it’s so annoying and I wish it would disappear. Also, I prefer dating dark skinned latinas because I’ve always found them more attractive, exotic, and sexy. As I said before, I’m not racist and I’m not saying that the other colors are ugly, it’s just that dark skinned latinas are my type.
Yes you’re right. Racism is taught and for us Latinos it dates back to the colonial days when the Spanish introduced it.
I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I hate racism, it’s so annoying and I wish it would disappear. Also, I prefer dating dark skinned latinas because I’ve always found them more attractive, exotic, and sexy. As I said before, I’m not racist and I’m not saying that the other colors are ugly, it’s just that dark skinned latinas are my type.
Yes you’re right. Racism is taught and for us Latinos it dates back to the colonial days when the Spanish introduced it.
I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I hate racism, it’s so annoying and I wish it would disappear. Also, I prefer dating dark skinned latinas because I’ve always found them more attractive, exotic, and sexy. As I said before, I’m not racist and I’m not saying that the other colors are ugly, it’s just that dark skinned latinas are my type.
Yes you’re right. Racism is taught and for us Latinos it dates back to the colonial days when the Spanish introduced it.
I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I hate racism, it’s so annoying and I wish it would disappear. Also, I prefer dating dark skinned latinas because I’ve always found them more attractive, exotic, and sexy. As I said before, I’m not racist and I’m not saying that the other colors are ugly, it’s just that dark skinned latinas are my type.
Yes you’re right. Racism is taught and for us Latinos it dates back to the colonial days when the Spanish introduced it.
I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light and I hate racism, it’s so annoying and I wish it would disappear. Also, I prefer dating dark skinned latinas because I’ve always found them more attractive, exotic, and sexy. As I said before, I’m not racist and I’m not saying that the other colors are ugly, it’s just that dark skinned latinas are my type.
It’s strange but I don’t think of you as dark skinned. I am Mexican American born in Texas. I am the darkest skinned in my family though as I get older I think I’m not as much as when I was a kid. I do remember my father telling be not to be out in the sun. I believe as an adult that he knew there was prejudiced against being darker skinned and must have experienced it.
She’s like a light brown color
Yeah she’s not even that dark and yeah this racism stuff sucks.
I’m Latino (Peruvian and Guatemalan) and I’m quite pale and light but I prefer dating dark or tanned Latinas because I just find them more exotic, sexy, and beautiful. Im not saying that the other colors/races are ugly, they’re not. It’s just that dark skinned Latinas are my type
You mentioned your school experience of noticing that white-looking classmates were more popular and treated better than others. That reminded me of a song that was popular in the US in the mid-1970s by an Afro-descendant singer named Janis Ian, a song called "Seventeen." She sings about thinking she was ugly as a teenager because she didn't have "perfect" skin and blond hair. You might like it.
Thank you. I'll check it out
Si eres mexicano, déjame saber tus comentarios también por favor. No hay nada mejor que la experiencia de la persona.
Hola! Me encanta tus videos, yo vi el video de "Why do some Mexican look asian" y mi subscribi.
Gracias por hacer un video como este. Yo soy de los EEUU pero mis padres son de Mexico. Aqui en RUclips hay muchos videos que hablan del tema "colorism" y creo que es importante de descutir porque hay muchos que no quieren admitir que existe en la comunidad, o hasta en familia.
P.d el ser blanco no es sinónimo de belleza.
Bueno a mí me molestaban por tener la piel casi lechosa y medio verdosa en ocasiones y tener ojos rasgados, pero pues.esa parte se la debo a mi familia materna que es una mezcla de japoneses y Españoles pero al final es un orgullo ser mexicano
Yo prefiero las morenas,ahi te va una flor, 💖🌹
La Karencita Yo soy Tzeltal de origen maya. Mi cara es igual que una cabeza maya de palenque. Nunca me he sentido descriminado ni en Mexico ni aqui en USA. Para mi es solamente un estado mental. Mi educacion y sabiduria esta muy arriba de cualquier color. Por lo tanto. Pudiera aplastar muy facilmente a cualquier racista que se me apareciera. Pero nunca he tenido surte. Sera que los racistas solo encuentran a los racistas que se sienten descriminados? Es decir indios ,negros chinos etc. que se sienten descriminados. Tambien son racistas. ya que piensan mucho en su raza y se preocupan por lo que dicen otros racistas. Pero como yo no pienso en esas tonterias. Tal vez ni lo noto!
Nothing to be ashamed of dark skin. You look more beautiful than European girls. Especially i like to date dark skinned Latina
In America it’s the opposite. It’s ok to discriminate against whites. The only time I felt white privileged was when I traveled through out Asia. Also parts of Latin America and the Caribbean
@@t.8837 neither do I tbh. idk why this person trying to get pity under a video like this.
@@t.8837 white people didnt "create" slavery.
There were slaves in Africa, middle east and asia well before the Americas even existed.. Theres white people in south Africa and they get discriminated all the time
Just shows how much you know about History or the world..
Blackwell xoxo you really don’t know history. Slavery and conquest was in this hemisphere long before Columbus. Slaves built the Great Wall and pyramids and was practiced in Africa before North America.
Skin color do occur do to many reasons, especially geographic location, climate, humidity etc. but it take several centuries to make difference. As we know human race is migrated from Africal, so theoritically our ancestors were black. As we already knows that white Americans are slightly different from Europeans. Southern Europeans especially Spaniards, Italians, Greeks and balkans are darker compared ro north Europeans.
Why are people so rude? Beautiful and ugly people come in ALL colors. I hate colorism.
She is defending la raza de bronce and she is married to a white guy. Why she didn't marry another vato just like her???
Put the money where your mouth is!!
🤑... And you're right this video sucks!!!!!
@@kaylaelizabeth1640 this is the dumbest shit I've heard
@@kaylaelizabeth1640 💯 Foreal.. self hate is a shame. Be brown and proud. Never be a sell out. Smh
I think it’s deep in our primitive brain as part of our tribal nature. We like to subdivide into groups (maybe a survival mechanism to try to belong to a larger group and get protection that way). And since today most of the power lies in northern countries with predominant whites on top everyone else looks up. I guarantee you when Egyptians were top dog a few thousand years ago this was not an issue though I am sure other issues were there as part of this tribalism. In Rwanda people hated each other based on political groupings. I am not really sure there is a clear way to change this though education and exposure certainly helps.
@Kayla does the color matter? That's discrimination. So You don't Accept to get out with a white guy just because he's not Mexican?
Colorism =racism!!
Unfortunately in Latin America it's a sad and disgraceful situation!!
Hoping new generations embraced and be proud of all skin color!!
Check out the telenovelas, they rather pick an European appearance so sad!!!
I'm glad you speaking about this issue!!
Not really. Colorism doesn't always equal racism because in many instances there is a colorism issue in your own race.
@@Tippy2forU oh rimshot
Except white skin
While it’s true that most Telenovela actors are of predominantly European ancestry...
I think the brown Mexicans are gorgeous actually! They look almost exotic. I live in Texas, which is North Mexico lol. So I have seen the diversity of the Mexican people.
Tu eres bonita! Soy Cubana y amo Mexico 😁
Gracias. Cuba es un país súper interesante y por lo poco que conocí, hermoso
Texas is not North Mexico. It is United States of America. An American State. Get a grip on historical revisionism.
@@uriahthehittite2309 I know what it is. I live here so I know. It was a joke. If you understood anything about the state, you would get the joke. It was part of Mexico and quite frankly still has a strong Mexican presence, outside of the eastern portion bordering Louisiana. Thanks for responding.
@James Garcia Si exacto. El hombre es estupido! Tejas es Mexico! Hahaha😁
@James Garcia The sovereign states of Mexico does not name the places you mentioned to be Mexico. Only revisionist fools like yourself claim this nonsense. To me you are a foreign invader using the past that is dead to the present. If you are an American citizen ranting historical revisionism like what you did makes you a traitor.
Unfortunately racism and classism exits in the whole world. What's important is that people are talking about it more now a days. In the end it comes down to accepting who we are and not thinking we are superior to others 🤍
People could remedy that by promoting mixed race marriages more often in society
Es verdad que nuestra proponéis gente discrimina contra la gente que no tiene color de piel clara. Todos los colores son hermosos y es verdad Televisa tiene mucha culpa de engañar a la gente al pensar que la gente blanca es hermosa y la gente de color de piel no tanto. Que ignorancia y tristeza pero mira es nuestro trabajo de cambiar eso 😃
First of all I would like to say that I love your channel. I grew up learning to respect and appreciate every ones differences, and that is exactly what I have taught my daughters, and I am currently teaching my grandchildren. In my case, I was born in the Central Coast of California to Mexican parents. Back in the 80s there were hardly any Mexicans in this area only White - Italians. In school I was constantly confused for Italian or Portuguese due to my last names ( Davila Silva) and my light skin and reddish hair. As soon as I corrected my teachers and peers regarding my ethnicity, they would immediately treat me differently and would make rude comments because of my Mexican decent. Then, back in the early 90s a wave of immigrants arrived to the area, the majority were from Oaxaca, Mexico. I was so happy to see people who I assumed understood my culture. Unfortunately I was wrong, they treated me really rude because I was “too white” to be their friend and the whites would treat me bad for being “too Mexican” it’s was very hard for me growing up. I grew up having no friends. Now days things have changed, I still live in the same town but the diversity has grown tremendously! I love it! There are people from all over the world living in this small county. We have people from Mexico, Russia, Philippines, Germany, Palestine, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Hungry, Fiji Islands, Bulgaria, Italy, Vietnam, India, Armenia. I’m so happy my daughters experienced living in a diverse community. Where an interracial marriage is not frowned up on. In fact, my grandsons are beautiful Black-Mexicans. ♥️🌹
Thanks for sharing. I love your culture and I love color and indigenous features. The world has this problem but be yourself , be confident and beautiful always, let the haters hate .
I am glad you touched on this. These same issues take place in the black culture in the U.S. I can't wait to come to México but have been apprehensive being a black woman.
It's interesting to see what dark-skinned and light skinned is considered by Spanish speaking people in certain parts of the world, especially knowing that there are even darker people that you find in Mexico, Central and South America because of the slave trade. In my experience I have had encounters with people from these regions who only identify themselves by their country of origin yet face many of the discriminatory things that you said in your video and say that there is no racism or divide among skin color. As someone whose mother is from Puerto Rico I have seen colorism and racism within my own family.
The blaks in the americas are indigenous. They mixed with the mongol Asians amd you have these types
This is such an important video on a topic that no one wants to talk about or doesn’t even know exists. I never felt ashamed of myself or realized this was a problem until I visited my family in Mexico for the first time when I was 11. I would hear my aunts compare skin tones between my brother and I and their own kids along with hair and eye color. I would hear things like “my daughter is prettier because her hair is lighter.” It was always a competition no matter where I visited family.
Everyone is beautiful as they are. The fact is, what we look like is a present from God to our parents and ancestors. So any compliments we get on our appearance is really a compliment to our parents and ancestors. And no one is ugly. We just have people with ugly minds.
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Hermanita, muchas gracias por esto video!! I feel enlightened, educated and you have reinforced in my mind that Piel Moreno es Bonito!!
Es súper bonita!
I used to watch Mexican telenovelas and yeah, you're right not many dark-skinned actors. If any, they usually are portrayed as the maid or the farm worker.
Thank you for making this video. It's so insightful. It is sad to know that dark skin has a negative image.
Sister, your melanin is beautiful, you are certainly beautiful! We are all created equally, we should all treat one another as so!!
We have this same problem in the Philippines, which is crazy because although we are diverse we arent nearly as diverse (skin tone wise) as mexicans! Some of the girls will even go to the lengths to use a soap that is for lightening the skin
Whiteness is still absurdly prized throughout Asia.
Wow! As a tanned Mexican I can relate to this video so much. Thank you for posting!!
Yeah, but at the same time you have some Mediterranean or Middle Eastern facial features in which are stereotypically more attractive and superior to those of Native Americans/indigenous.
You should interview some Indians about this as they have very very similar issues of colorism due to their history of British colonization.
The British ruled over 200 years and barely interacted with the locals. The Muslims ruled for 800 years in India. The Aryans ruled for 5000 years and their culture is still present in India
Not true, in India even their Gods are light skin. It comes from the Aryans who had light skin.
@@AyanAli-py7ci Britisn and Indian did interacted. Princess Diana even has Indian genetics, her haplogroup...
It ain’t British buddy that was apart of India before the British came its apart of the caste system.
@@AyanAli-py7ci the aryans didn’t “rule” anything. The Aryan invasion was false
Yo no solo tengo el nopal en la cara, lo llevo en el corazón. ❤️🌵❤️Y me encanta encontrar paisanos inteligentes, nobles y educados como tú. Son los verdaderos mexicanos con valores. 🤗
Eres nopaludo? 🤔
¿O sea que los que no tenemos cara de nopal (como tú lo dices), no tenemos valores ni somos verdaderos mexicanos? Eres un genio.
"Y me encanta encontrar paisanos inteligentes, nobles educados como tú" creo que eso es lo que quiso decir, no habla de la apariencia, eso es lo que entendí.
Por otro lado. Comparto a cualquiera que lo necesite y quiera una parte de la Biblia 💊 Hechos 2:38 saludos
ese tipo de frases son las que delatan que en realidad están muy acomplejados y que no les gusta ser prietos jajajaja
I was born in California to Mexican immigrants from Oaxaca. Growing up, I was discriminated ONLY by other Mexicans and not once by any other race, even white people. People from Jalisco, Zacatecas, Michoacan, etc...always talking shit because of where my family was from or my brown skin. I served the Marine Corps and went to school or stationed in the South, and not once did I ever experience overt racism towards me. But. yeah, other Mexicans, "my people", yeah....
Sad but this is true, they make many jokes about dark skin people.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing that.
I actually grew up in Los Angeles as a Latinx dark skin and felt like I was discriminated even amongst Mexican ppl for being the darkest out of my family. I grew up staying out of the sun because how easily I tanned and over time I realized how beautiful I am and I need to appreciate myself and the way i look💖 I’m so glad I’m in the position I am today, I appreciate my skin so much
I’m so happy you finally realised the beauty within you. Being discriminated as a dark skin child is so cruel. The fact that is dark skins can stay out in the sun longer and our skin glistens in the sun should be enough to showcase how beautiful we are. Proud of you my dear brother 🤎💪🏾
@@nathanosei-atenka71 thank you so much. You have clue what that means to me.💖 Thank you!
@@justinrodriguez6836 no problem brother 💙
What's a Latinx?
My dad was dark skinned and I always thought dark skin was so attractive! I used to get as tanned as possible because dark skin is so beautiful! My husband is the only person in his family who was dark and I thought him so handsome I couldn't help but marry him!
El titulo debe ser "Ser bonita en México" como tú.
Qué amable! Gracias
As somebody who grew up around Caribbean, Black american and Hispanic culture, I have observed this self-loathing, colonial racist trend in so many nuances. I now see the same thing in Europe with more immigrants than in the past. I appreciate people like you putting videos like this out there to help reverse the brainwashing that has permeated so many cultures throughout centuries. I am married to a Caucasian woman, where in some rare cases, I may get a similar reaction as you with your husband. Hopefully, soon, there will be more people who realize that love is love (minus people who only marry for physical appearance, like skin color). I hope that you have or will post a video on Afro ancestry (amongst other ancestries) in Mexico.
The shame of that whole thing is if you pluck someone's eyes out of their head it wouldn't matter what color you were as long as you were capable of leading in a direction that would help them. I think Mexicans wear white Mexicans have a serious issue and I've been on this Earth a long time and I've never met any Hispanic as racist as Mexicans. The problem is Mexicans are still trying to become what Jose vascancelos thought was the perfect Mexican milky white skin with different color eyes. Jose vasconcellos adopted Adolf Hitler's policy that if your hair is the same color as your eyes then you are not white. La Raza cosmica is nothing but a racist movement that Mexicans still follow till this day and it is such a shame because there's so many beautiful black Mexicans who are ostracized in Mexico at this particular time simply because of the color of their skin Mexico should be ashamed of itself to allow this to continue
just found your channel and as Mexican i am really proud of you and the topics you talk about. please never stop
As a light skinned Mexican I know that other light skinned Mexicans did talk negatively about darker skinned Mexicans when I was at school or jokes (racial in nature) hurled at them. It always made me mad.
As a white mexican (I have light skin and blond hair) they talk bad about me first. So I think we are also discriminated
@@Lilhajxjk274 youre lying
@@billydakid9814 I'm just sharing my experience
@@Lilhajxjk274 troll
The dark skinned mexicans are the real mexicans, the so called white Mexicans are the real imposters.alot of white blood in their fake asses, brown skin is beautiful and healthy, that's why white people tan. They even hate their own skin.they are jealous,you are beautiful.
En mi familia una de mis primas es muy blanca de ojos verdes y su papá le decía a mi mamá que no me vistiera de negro porque me hacia más oscura. Siempre me sentí mal por ser así y deseaba ser mas blanca pero ahora no me importa, estos rasgos que tengo son bonitos para el resto del mundo y para mí cada vez que me veo al espejo :)
Que pena que hay alguna gente así, odio al racismo.
Soy Latino (Peruano y Guatemalteco) y soy blanco de piel pálido y siempre tuve una inclinación a las Latinas de piel canela. Se les ve mas exótica, sexy, y lindas. No estoy diciendo que las otras razas/colores son feos, sino es que las Latinas Morenas son mi preferencia
Excellent video and information. Gracias por tomarte el tiempo de hacer esto!
Same in Philippines. My cousins praised me for being Light Skinned. I told them, "Why? You are beautiful." And dark skin is beautiful. Not "too" or "also" but just beautiful.
Yeah that's the thing I hate so much about Filipinos. Our older relatives also makes us pinch our nose so it would become "matangos" (narrow nose) and the Miss Philippines beauty winner is often half-foreign with a white father from a western country and there seems to be a desire among young Pinays to marry an older white man 2x or even 3x their age.
You answered dozens of questions I've had about Mexican treatment of fairer skinned people, said as a Taiwanese American whose ancestors have those same sentiments. Superb answering, I feel SO relieved I'm not the only one wondering.
Desgraciadamente el racismo en México es real, mi madre es wera y mi padre moreno, mis dos hermanos son weros y yo Morena, siempre recibí todo el cariño de mis padres, pero también sentí la discriminación de algunos miembros de la familia y cuando eres niñ@ y te ofenden te lastiman ufffff
Pero afortunadamente creces y comprendes que vales igual que cualquier ser humano de cualquier color
Dios me ha bendecido en abundancia, el no discrimina, el es amor
Dalia, la palabra se escribe "guera", con el signo umlaut sovbre la u. Mi teclado no lo puede poner. Es, por eso, que no lo puse pero asi se escribe.
Muy cierto
@@caraqueno no se llama Umlaut, se llaman dieresis en español
@@marnegro8079 Gracias por la aclaracion.
El racismo esta en todo el Mundo grandicimo bestia, no generalices que en mexico hay gente buena
It's a shame that indigenous ppl are constantly being treated like they're not good enough, pretty enough. When this is literally your homeland and there's all this history and archeological sites right there for you to explore.
I love Roma. Alfonso Cuaron is one of my favorite directors. I could only imagine the significance of seeing an indigenous person on the big screen, and speaking an indigenous dialect too.
I'd love to hear more about your journey exploring your roots. Pls keep us informed.
Mexico was a colony of Spain; as such depending of one's features and appearance as well as how mixed your bloodline is, so if your wondering why people with European features are desirable that's one reason. I was born and raised in Costa Rica another colony. my parents were not allowed into town on weekends, something I've heard went on in other post-colonial lands. oh yeah and if you try and call me or anyone else "moreno' which we do consider a racial slur; regardless of what you've heard, you will get a whipping
That's very interesting, in Mexico moreno means brown and a word most Mexican American could relate to also Mexicos modern presidential left wing party is called Morena.
Same thing in Vietnam. When H'Hen Niê won miss Vietnam back in 2017, all of Vietnamese youths were proud, because we finally have a dark skin ethnic minority that held the title. She was the first dark skin girl and of a small indigenous tribe in the Vietnamese highland with parents that don't even speak the Vietnamese language. But even till this day, light skin Kinh people still dominate the media and the defined beauty image of the country. Like Vietnamese Novela is literally filled with extremely pale skin (Kinh ethnic) Vietnamese actors. The other 53 dark skinned minority groups still have a long way until they can receive recognition in the media (not to mention language & culture barrier since some tribes don't speak Vietnamese). Even foreigners can easily apply for Vietnamese citizenship and being treated better than the ethnic natives. I think we can do better than this! Dark skinned ethnic groups are Vietnamese too and they deserved better recognition and chances and representation. Btw I love your videos and I spend many years as a child in Oaxaca, México 😍
But hasn’t Viet Nam a communist government which should promote equality among all ethnic groups?
@@didonegiuliano3547 in theory yes but not in practice. That's what socialism is. Empty promises.
@@Desolatesoul1123 Indeed. Stay safe my friend. I wish you a happy life :^)
@@didonegiuliano3547 same to you dear! Cuidate bien y bendiciones para ti
@@Desolatesoul1123 "in theory yes but not in practice. That's what socialism is. Empty " - Good comment, it's just a way to control people.
Once when I was working in US, my Centroamerican boss ask me where I was from, I told him "I'm Mexican", I asked him "where are you from?" he just said: "I'm from El Salvador", but my grandgrandfather was from Portugal, what about your family?. - I just said I'M 100% MEXICAN. He said: So you are indigenous? (He said it in insulting way, imagining that I would feel offended), I said: well, yes but I don't speak an indigenous language but I would love to learn it.
I've been called Asian and of course I know there are a mix in my family, but I still can't understand this mentality of Latinos trying to overpass others Latinos just because they have foreign heritage.
Please, when somebody ask you where are you from, only answer your nationality, its not necessary to know your grand,grand,grand,grand,grandparents nationality if you just do it for the feeling of superiority.
OMg he's such a freak
Well, yeah! You straight up do look Asian, though. Many Native Americans look similar to Asians especially Filipinos because tens of thousands of years ago, Native Americans came from the Mongoloids (the Asian race) before crossing over the ancient ice age land bridge in between Siberia and Alaska. Others boated across and settled since then. The way I see it is that Native Americans compared to many East Asians for example generally have higher cheekbones, a little less slanted or closing-in eyes but the eyes are still small and slanted or closing-in, possibly rounder heads, wrinkles on their faces or skins easily, shorter in height and lesser metabolism making them easily obese. Though, Native Americans in the U.S and Canada are generally tall and less likely obese compared to Latin America's Native Americans. East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Taiwanese) on the other hand are generally light skin, have more slanted or closing-in eyes, lower cheekbones, heads that are not as round as the Native Americans, flatter faces, medium height but still shorter than most Caucasians and Afros on average, higher metabolism so therefore they're not as likely to be as obese as Latin America's Native Americans, and a little bit more hair growth. Southeast Asians are much like East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, and Taiwanese) but their skin tones are generally darker, faces not as flat, and probably a bit shorter.
In Latin America, I believe that Caucasians and those that are mostly Caucasians like the castizos are generally up top, mestizos or anyone with only half or less Caucasian are like in second place, Asians likely in second place, and Native Americans/indigenous and Afros are down at the bottom.
I (American) have close indigenous friends in Guatemala, but I find them much more standoffish in Mexico. Then again, Guatemalans in general seem to like Americans more than Mexicans do. Except the Mexicans in the US, of course.
Same case in the Philippines being white or half white became the standard in the media but that was something that we shouldn't be proud of but I'm happy that morenos have being represented we'll right now.Its time to embrace moreno skin.
In the Philippines, we used to think that Mexicans are mostly European looking because of the telenovelas. I found out, that we as former colonies of the same Europeans, are still both slaves of colonial mentality. Here, indigenous looks gets lowkey disliked and many prefer white skin. Tons of videos with this topic has been produced on RUclips. To add, the Spaniards called us Indio and that was derogatory.
I just finished your Asian video, and my wife who is Filipina has told me dark skin ( morena) is not desirable. As it means your a poor rice farmer, and not fair skin. There are products like lotions, creams to lighten the skin tone.
I was call bolillo before and yes I know it’s meaning. But I don’t get offended by it. Is the word prieta still used in Mexico? Cuidate
This is a great video. The only one I could find that addresses skin tone and eyecolor prejudice in Mexico. On the surface Americans are not aware of this subtle prejudice. As I get to know the culture I am more aware of it. How interesting. Thank You.
En la primaria una vez escuché a unas niñas hablar de como les gustaria tener una amiga güera porque nunca habian tenido una y yo solo recuerdo pensar "what, que tiene eso de especial?" pero no habia caido en cuenta que podrian estar diciendolo como si fuera algo bueno solo por su piel mas clara. Cuando empece a andar con mi ex, recibi el comentario de una prima acerca de como iba a mejorar la raza y su tono no era muy distinto al mio, a lo mejor yo soy solo un poco mas amarilla. A veces veo que comparten esos casos en redes donde una europea o una mujer de E.U.A. esta en una relación o casada con un hombre moreno de rascos indigenas y muchos hombres cuyos rasgos indigenas son muy fuertes tambien lo hacen menos o lo tomas como un logro al cual aspirar... conoci a una chica ciega durante un servicio social y ella me decia de como sus tias y su familia le habian hecho darse cuenta lo fea que era a comparación de su hermana que tenia la piel mas clara y yo la veia hermosa, le hice notar mi sorpresa y le habian dicho tanto que no lo era que no me creia.. y luego estan casos como el de Yalitza que son muy frustrantes, disfrazan su racismo con excusas como que hubiera sido actriz antes cuando eso ni se lo cuestionan en las telenovelas con actores de piel clara, es muy decepcionante ver como no nos hemos librado de esas ideas de la colonia despues de tanto tiempo, escucho mucho a algunos decir que México no es racista si no clasista pero es ambos lamentablemente, mas que nada hacia la piel morena y rasgos indigenas
En estos casos me gustaría ver a las feministas a hacer algo. Ayudar a la humanidad a entender que el color de piel es solo eso, color de piel, pero que todos somos iguales.
@@whiteangel3215 Si bien creo que el feminismo nos concierte a todos este es otro tema muy distinto.
@@AnaRuizNeko el feminismo no es el problema sino más bien los radicales que hay en los movimientos que terminan por manchara todo el movimiento pero en sí no esmalo es como el hispanismo el problema no es el hispanismo el problema son las personas radicales que hay en los movimientos sociopolíticos
I've never wondered about my Sicilian heritage, which I'm, as far as I know 100%. Yet, I am fascinated by your inquiry
You know, perhaps, that Italians were considered "not White" during the great US immigrant wave of the late 1800s and early 1900s. The Irish were very White, but they were the most disliked and discriminated against (except perhaps Jews), with "no Irish" signs being common in businesses. The Irish were unpopular for a very good reason: they were far more likely to be drunks and to behave badly.
For me the only time anyone has said anything about my appearance was from a Mexican who told me that all the girls where he was from looked like me (brown skin and dark haired) . He was really into my roommate . She’s Mexican too but with very white skin and dark hair . He complimented her a lot . The point of this is that he mentioned my looks and showed his interest in my roommate before he even knew that I wasn’t even interested in him . That was what really irked me about the interaction. The audacity for him to assume I was interested in him and for him to right away say what he said . And the cherry on top was that he was DARKER skinned than me .
Just one guy.
I love your personality and way of explaining things. I'm a new subscriber! 😍
Thanks you for sharing. I hope we can get over these stupid cultural historical biases and crazy twisted ideas of race and hierarchy it’s so stupid. I hope we can all move on together in a more equitable world.
I am Mexican-American. I am very light skinned, and have light brown hair. The term used to describe people like me here in Los Angeles growing up (by other Mexican Americans) was "white-Mexican". Growing up, my family would often vacation in Mexico. While there, I came to notice that in Mexico (1970's) that all the best jobs in the department stores, the pharmacies, the nice restaurants, were also given to light skinned Mexicans. Mexicans in charge wanted to project this to the tourist. It has always bothered me. I thought it was disturbingly hypocritical knowing that many Mexican Americans in the U.S. felt they were being discriminated against here. I believe, because of their skin color, they would have been discriminated against more, if they lived in Mexico!
Me siento orgullosa de mi país con tus videos Karen, sigue así, muchas gracias!
People told me that there seemed to be a major height difference from the southern most regions of Mexico vs the northern regions or border areas of Mexico to the USA. It was common from what I hear that Mexican men look only 5'5" on average in height in their southern regions near Central America but Mexican men look 5'10" on average in their northern regions like in Chihuahua and Monterrey. Saw that Mexican men are 5'8" on average so thus most be a balance from region to region in Mexico. Having regional differences is common in any country because Wikipedia says that Germany has a 10 cm or 4 inch average height difference between its own provinces and Italy has a 8 cm or 4 inch average height difference between its provinces as well.
I posted earlier about the economic factors concerning this topic but felt I had something to add specific topic of the video.
I believe what she is discussing is something that is mostly contained within a specific country or group of countries which closely share the same culture (this might or might not exist).
I've spoken to friends from Switzerland and Italy about this...... and they both voiced the same thing. They see US citizens as "the same" regardless of race or culture. Meaning the people from the US have more in common with each other regardless of race/ethnicity than they do with people outside of the US. So from their perspective, they may either like or hate US citizens (or something in between) based on the fact that they are from the US, not based on the race/ethnicity of the individual.
When I think about Mexico its the same....... my concerns are whether I can successfully communicate with Mexicans (i'm studying spanish currently) and whether I get along well with them and can enjoy good conversation etc.... whether the girl is pretty......but at no time have i had thoughts about castizo, mestizo, quano, merano (I actually had to look up these words for this post).
I understand that these things might have a meaning inside the country of Mexico and within the culture (I suspect it might be different from state to state or city to city) but for people not from Mexico......we have not been raised in your culture so these things are ideas we're not familiar with. To speak frankly, I would easily be friends with people I enjoy being around and feel I can trust than I would with people who I don't enjoy and don't feel I can trust..... their ethnic background is not of primary importance. I'm not going to choose my friends or who i'm interested in dating based on some caste system that exists within their culture but that I don't even fully understand because I was not raised in that culture.
As romantic relationships are concerned..... I think its pretty common for people of any given country to find foreign accents "sexy". One might even say that some of us get bored with people who speak just like us (or have cultures just like ours) and new and interesting accents can be seen as exotic. The same for people who look just like we do.... I'm sure there are people who are attracted more to people who look like themselves but then there are also people who are specifically more attracted to people who look different. There are 7+ billion people in the world....there's plenty of room for anyone to have their preferences and I'd say that regardless of how any of us look, there are people who will find us attractive. At the end of the day, I think kindness, humility, friendliness and self-confidence (not ego) are the most attractive qualities in a person regardless of anything else.
In short.... there might be this unfair separation of peoples within Mexico defined by the culture (and this is probably true of all countries to a large extent) but I don't think it extends to people from other countries when interacting with the people of Mexico. But again, this is just a mental exercise and I don't know enough about the topic to claim I'm making statements of fact. Your mileage may vary.
If there is some type of unofficial caste system within your culture (for any of our countries), then take action when and where you can. This means, in yourself. None of us can force anyone else to believe anything. The only thing we can control is ourselves. So we should ask ourselves if we are choosing our doctor because they are the best doctor available to us or if we're choosing the doctor because the doctor looks like us. This is a great example because for something as important as your health, its clear that you'd want to choose the best doctor and the background of the doctor isn't relevant. And that same logic applies to everything.
EDIT: on the point of "pride". I suppose I can understand the concept of group pride if you have felt that you've been unfairly ostracized in some fashion.....however, my personal viewpoint is that pride as a concept only makes sense in terms of my viewpoint of myself based upon my own beliefs and actions. Whether my great-great grandfather was a great leader or a murderer says nothing about me as an individual. I'm not guilty of the sins of a criminal ancestor nor did I earn any praise for actions of a great ancestor that I took no part in. And pride based on being part of some social group is even more far fetched. I think its far simpler than that...... when I look into the mirror, am I proud of who I am....my own actions, my own beliefs.
Bravo 👏 Well said❤️
The problem is that a lot of the discrimination in latin america is normalized, so a lot of people don't see anything wrong with it, and are not even aware of what they're doing, we're raised in that mindset, constantly being told white is beautiful and indigenous and/or black is ugly, so is difficult for a lot of people to admit that they're biased or that they act a certain way when they think they're not like that.
@@priscilarosario1891 i don't doubt you and I'm sorry to hear it.
The "they" who are constantly telling you that is the media.....tv, films, news, celebrities...... I would suggest to everyone to ignore them. The media and those who pay media are none of our friends. its nothing more than propaganda and from what you're saying....the things they "teach" us are hurtful and have a negative impact.
If any of us want to know about reality..... speak to the people who you know have your best interests in mind....your friends and family.
I would not assume that I can speak about things within the country of Mexico.....instead I listen to people who live there to explain things to me so that I can learn.
I'm only speaking of people from outside Mexico who are only learning about Mexican culture but who have not yet participated in it. I care not the shade of your skin but I do care a great deal about if you are a kind and caring person who I can trust...and if we can enjoy each others company. And I wish that would be the way it is for everyone.
I will add this. I think there will always be some people to look down on any of us. I know there are people who look down on me. But what I have found, during my long life, which is most important is my opinion of myself.....and I do not base my opinion of myself on the viewpoint of others who may not care for me. take care and thank you for helping me understand things better.
@@charliefoxtrotsky4104 yeah the problem is when "they" includes not only the media but family and friends, but at least people are waking up
@@priscilarosario1891 yeah I've very sorry to hear that but it does make sense. Many people allow themselves to be "told" what to believe by the media.
I do think you're right that people are slowly waking up. In the meantime, people like you and me can try to live our lives free of outside influence....and find our friends among good people.
I think the best thing that we can do is lead by example. Live our lives in such a way as to show the people around us that there is another, better way of living our lives.
I do believe that leading by example works. I've seen it work in my life.
I'm glad there are thoughtful people like you in the world.
My spouse (Mexicana-brown skinned) watches novelas and I asked her why are all the top actors are white, green-blue eyes while the servants in those shows are all dark skinned brown?
I have been surprised when in Mexico they insult each other by calling them selves Indian in Puerto Rico people who have Indian blood is a source of pride as well in many parts of the US even politicians try to say they have Indian ancestry
Yes but in Puerto Rico being called African or black is a insult while in Mexico it isn't lol .
Carribean parade their taino ancestry while Mexican parade their African even though both are minimal in both places lol
What? why specific "indian"?
KAREN -- Why would you EVER feel uncomfortable about the way you look? You are GORGEOUS!! 🔥
I'm from El Paso, TX, most people in the border are morena clara or light skinned. but for sure alot of us are mixed. When I was growing up the few kids that were dark were treated bad even by the teachers.
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Hi, fellow Mexican here! Thank so much for doing this video and discussing these important topics! I think it is so essential to discuss them more in the public arena, both in Mexico and in the whole world. I could really resonate with a lot of the feelings and thoughts you shared :) The colonial system that abused and discriminated against our indigenous ancestors has present and harmful repercussions in our current Mexican society. There’s a hypocritical narrative in our society in which we celebrate and brag about the remaining of pre-Hispanic cultures for commercial purposes (tourism) while we continue to discriminate against present surviving indigenous communities and brown skinned people as a whole. We are somehow taught that being brown skinned is not something to feel pretty about and to share indigenous cultural traits is not something to be proud about either :( I believe a good way to break free form these near sighted chains of the mind which we have acquired is learning about human diversity through anthropology and to challenge our social constructs through sociology. That and going to therapy is part of the process of deconstruction :)
Since you are in Querétaro and so close to Hidalgo, you should take your husband to Mexico’s little British corner in Pachuca/Real del Monte (Mexico’s “Little Cornwall) where the Cornish settled and worked in the mines! Cornish pastys are the staple brought by the British. It’s fascinating to see the legacy the British left in the architecture and culture and many families of 6th and more generations in Hidalgo. Dunia Ludlow is Mexico City’s urban planner currently and is a descendant of these immigrants! Cheers! Y saludos desde Michoacán! :)
Yes! You read my mind. I have a trip planned to Real del Monte. I just don't know when but definitely he needs to see it.
How interesting.
@@LaKarencitaMX a must!! Especially since it might still be chilly outside haha both Real del Monte and Pachuca are worth it to see this legacy unknown by many! Such pretty places! The English also brought football to Mexico! The English cemetery is so beautiful which is creepy but true and there’s a little Tea House right outside with a beautiful view and a mini museum of the British and when Prince Charles and Camilla went to visit a few years back! And they even have some British pubs haha night not be open because of the pandemic but worth it if they are! Big Ben Pub and a few others that take you back to the UK! Can’t wait to travel with you via your videos haha take care! And keep uploading awesome videos like this one! :)
I'm wondering with lighter skinned Mexican people if they do tan up after while or do they take precautions ? I live in Australia and am tanned from the weather here but from a distance I would look white but close up I'm tanned. I know it's not all about the shade of your skin as indigenous people would have slightly different facial features etc. If a country is very diverse like Mexico then we need to embrace the differences and reflect more positively beyond the whole surface. happy to hear your Vietnam stories as I've been there many times myself.
When the Spanish arrived in Mexico, they realized that they did not have the strength to defeat the Aztecs, so they made a pact with the Tlaxcalans to defeat them ..... and there began the mixture of races or mestizaje, almost exclusively between a Spanish man and an indigenous woman, the mestizo children were raised apart from the indigenous and learned to admire and love the "" white "" culture of his father and even they created the phrase "" Tienes que mejorar la raza"" ( you have to improve the race ) which meant to marry someone whiter than you ... the rule was: the son of Spanish and indigenous is mestizo, the son of mestizo and Spanish is castizo and the son of castizo and Spanish is Criollo or Spanish (white), this explains why people with indigenous appearance are depreciated by the majority of the mestizo or castizo population.
@ger san At first the Spanish united with the indigenous, simply because they needed them and the Spanish crown established the Castas system as a result of the large number of mestizos who were born and who demanded to maintain some of their rights as descendants of the conquerors. The first mestizos were educated by their parents, because there were no churches or convents in the first years after the conquest,.. only the descendants of Spaniards could be Criollos and the authorities made sure of this, by writing the casta of the baby's parents in the official birth document, discrimination against indigenous people has been around for a long time and Mexico is still very racist, as can be seen in the racial insults against actress Yalitza Aparicio made by other Mexican actresses or the fact that it's considered that in Los Altos de Jalisco, the ""whitest"" region in Mexico, has the most beautiful Mexican women .... obviously none of these women have indigenous characteristics.
You’re explanation is correct I think 👌🏼 the history of Mexico is so much more complicated than black and white (i.e Spanish vs indigenous). There is a lot of gray area.
However, there are people in my country 🇺🇸 that try to create a divide between lighter skinned Mexicans and darker skinned Mexicans because the goal is the same as before: divide and conquer !
@ger san Racism in Mexico manifests itself differently than in other countries, because most of the population is of mixed race, there was never racial segregation between indigenous, Spanish or mixed race people ... I have relatives who are blacker than night and whiter than Moon,. Racism in Mexico is so curious that a Mexican can be very proud of his Aztec roots and at the same time be insolent with today's indigenous people.
@ger san You have a point, most of the indigenous people are very poor and... curiously, many rich people are white, I don't know if the Mexican is more classist than racist. but money definitely makes you 100% respectable, no matter that you look completely indigenous.
@Dr. Nick The Europeans are concerned by the theory of the """Great replacement""" and in the North-americans by the ""White genocide"".... they worry about the disappearance of their culture and mainly of their ""race"" ..... ironic..., when in America, a continent that should be completely ""brown"", there are a huge amount of white people and people of mixed race, actually, people of original American ""race"", are now a minority.
We also have the same problem in the Philippines. So many filipinos want to marry a foreigner to have mixed babies or what we call “mestizo” babies because almost 60% of the media and telenovelas in the Philippines are atleast half white or half something else. The media definitely needs to represent more groups of people.
My grandma always told me brown skin Mexicans have more Aztec blood then light skin Mexicans...my grandma use to teach catholic school in nahuatl to Indigenous Mexicans to bad I only learned a few nahuatl songs but not the actual language before she passed away
Some also have African ancestry. Something mentioned by Henry Louis Gates in Black In Latin America: Mexico And Peru.
Funny how genes work because my husband is a lite skin Mexican and has a lot of native blood and little Spanish.
@@darlenalena3502 Looks are only skin deep. Something to always consider.
@@TheGeoScholar yes that's for sure
I'm actually German but mixed white/Asian with a bit darker skin. Everyone in México of course assumes I'm Mexican. It was funny as I am generally treated a bit less nice than my white peers while in México but as soon as people find out I'm from Germany they suddenly change. I came to realise that speaking fluent Spanish is actually a disadvantage as just speaking English everyone would immediately assume I'm not Mexican and treat me better lol. The whole Classism / Colourism thing about Latin America is a shame.
I believe all women look beautiful in their natural skin tone (and this includes you!).
It is when they try to change their colour they start to look unnatural...
We say nopal en la frente when someone seems to deny their mexican or native roots but don't know if it's right since we can make mistakes in our judgements.
Yes! Without a doubt. Whites and Whiter skinned Mexicans are treated much better everywhere you go in Mexico. Darker skinned Mexican’s have to end the discrimination!
Well not everywhere, but yes
The best revenge is to live well. The indigenous people need to educate themselves and create more profitable businesses, as the Jews and Chinese immigrants have, even when they were severely impoverished.
@@nicmart People like you fail to understand the systems in place to prevent certain groups of people from succeeding as a people. The Chinese in America enjoy the cover of our trade with China. The White Jews are protected, the brown and Black Jews erased. Black individuals can succeed however, Black Movements are viciously shutdown. That's why in every Black Community the Businesses are less than 1% owned by Black People...
kind of weird im the opposite and i am mexican. i always hated haiving lighter skin because i did not stand out like my family . I would to go outside all the time without sunscreen to get darker.
Wow! In your Vietnam footage you look very much like the Vietnamese people you're with. That's not a criticism by the way.
Im extremely proud having strong indigenous features. I carry myself proudly now.
Hola Karen, nunca entenderé , porque la gente le da más importancia a la apariencia exterior, que a lo interior ,. Cuando lo exterior tarde o temprano se deteriorará, pero la inteligencia, las virtudes y principios siempre permanecerán!!
"Con la frente en alto" is a new phrase for me in Spanish. Thanks to you (and Yalitza in her tweet) for teaching me this!😊
So I'm black American and I'm an administrator at my job. One of the cleaning ladies used to ask my strange questions about my hair. Like all the time. She saw my daughter's picture on my monitor and started asking me about my daughter's hair. I thought it was odd but then she started doing super weird things like mopping and sweeping under my desk while I sat at my desk. Now this woman can barely speak proper English but turns out she's racist against Black people. Another Hispanic lady in my office told me she hates black people. I almost died laughing y'all. Really I did. Her skin is the same color as mine. I guess she thinks in her mind she is "better" than me 🤣😂😆😄 there delusion is real y'all. Just ignore them and live your life while you're here.
It's because of the way most Black's behave is this country.
@@g.torres9551 yeah vice versa,
Why come to a county and not speak English and act entitled. whites don’t think your hard workers just cheap labor 😂
@@g.torres9551please what kind of stupid excuse is that ? black Americans do not represent all black people, they are so many different ethnicities, nationalities…she’s just racist
@@g.torres9551Only 13% of the population but they the reason for your angst? Living in your head rent free.
Yeah I Won't Say Nothing But Move on
Thank you for sharing this video, you are very right about the internalized racism that
exists in our country, I hope you can continue talking about this in the future. Thanks.
You are so right and bring up topics I always thought of growing up.
it's obvious that the earliest Americans were mostly from Asia. All shades are beautiful. It must be difficult to be undervalued. I am an american Jew of eastern European ancestry. On those surveys, I with there was a space of Ashkenazi Jewish, but I end up checking white. I don't necessarily resent looking white, but sometimes I wish there was some outward identifier. Great channel!
Understand that what dark skin humans have experienced stems from hate which has been transmitted towards our skin simply because SUNSHINE loves it.
It is a gift that we must acknowledge and USE to create within the divine laws of MOTHER (nature)
I would suspect that those who look down on dark-skinned people also to some degree have no problem with a manager exploiting his workers and the value of their labor.
This video made my day. I can say I relate to you so much. I am dark skin and I have always felt less than among my siblings because they all are lighter than me. It's something that I don't think they can fully understand as this feeling is only felt if you are actually dark skinned in a culture that say" dark skin is ugly"
Another thing, I also married a " guerro" and have two beautiful babies.
What I want to add to this to stress the disparity is that, even my own mother takes a better liking to my children who are light skinned that my nieces and nephews , who are dark skinned. Racism and prejudice is well and alive in Mexico!
Eres muy valiente a hablar de algo que muchas chicas morenas hemos sentido, te felicito y lo importante es aceptarse y sentirse orgullosa de tus raíces, al igual que tu me he sentido discriminada por mexicanos hasta en tu propia familia escuchas, frases como: ese niño(a) está muy bonito(a) es güerito(a), "Se mejoró la raza". Pero haciendo una reflexión es la sencillez, originalidad y seguridad que uno proyecte hacia la sociedad lo que realmente importa.
I really like your videos. Please do not change your appearance, or especially your personality, based on what you feel other people think of you. Just take their criticism, store it away somewhere in memory and keep doing what you are doing. There is no reason to allow others to dictate how you should live your life.
I don't see nothing rong being dark color I love it I'm from Mexico and I'm White and always had problems because my friends they used to call me guerinche because of my color sohe doesn't matter if you're brown black or white or any color you're going to have problems so we have to be happy the way we're right.
I lived in central Mexico in the 80s. I saw what you are describing. It does go back to the colonial era. Even in families you'd meet, the contrasts in kids skin tones would lead to a mothers commenting on her pride in her fair son, and then this is my little indian girl.